Shariah compliance and information transmission: evidence from an emerging market
Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
ISSN: 1759-0817
Article publication date: 28 January 2020
Issue publication date: 12 August 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to document the information transmission capacity of Shariah-compliant firms.
Design/methodology/approach
The vector auto-regression (VAR) model is used to test the information transmission capacity of Shariah-compliant firms in India during the period between 2010 and 2015.
Findings
The findings show that the returns of non-Shariah-compliant firms lead the returns of Shariah-compliant firms. It is argued that non-Shariah-compliant firms possess certain financial characteristics (higher leverage, higher accounts receivable and higher cash holdings) that make their information environment better than information environment of Shariah-compliant firms. The authors argue that superior information environment leads to timely incorporation of market-wide information, thereby causing the returns of non-Shariah-compliant firms to lead the returns of Shariah-compliant firms. It is also shown that the result holds in various market conditions.
Originality/value
It is believed that prior literature does not adequately address the information transmission capacity of the stock prices of Shariah-compliant firms. The gap is filled by documenting that stock prices of Shariah-compliant firms that are more informative than stock prices of non-Shariah-compliant firms.
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Citation
Farooq, O. and Pashayev, Z. (2020), "Shariah compliance and information transmission: evidence from an emerging market", Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 11 No. 8, pp. 1583-1597. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIABR-02-2018-0032
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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