Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia

The fast growing of Islamic bonds issuance in Malaysia and worldwide, coupled with the lack of corporate finance literature that integrates the development of lslamic capital market motivate us to study the wealth effects of Islamic debt oferings and their determinants. It is found that the market r...

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Main Author: Ibrahim, Yusnidah
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Language:English
Published: Business Perspectives 2009
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1893/1/Yusnidah_Ibrahim%5B1%5D.pdf
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description The fast growing of Islamic bonds issuance in Malaysia and worldwide, coupled with the lack of corporate finance literature that integrates the development of lslamic capital market motivate us to study the wealth effects of Islamic debt oferings and their determinants. It is found that the market reaction is significantly positive during event windows -3, 0 and -3, 3 surrounding the announcements of lslamic debt issuance. Five variables suggested by the capital structure literature, namely firms size (SIZE), issue size (AMT), leverage (LEV), free cash flows (FCF) and investment opportunity (Te) together with two new variables, the syariah compliant status (SYAR) and the Security Commission's (SC) approval (APPROVAL) were modeled as potential explanatory variables of the wealth effects.The analysis conclude that the wealth effect of lslamic bond issuance announcements is positively influenced by the issuer S investment opportunity and negatively influenced by the issue size, ,firm size and whether the announcement is accompanied by the SC approval. The finding implies that the positive reaction is not due to investors ' preference for Islamic compliant activities but it is due to similar factors,found in studies on conventional bonds.The negative influence of SC approval on the wealfh efect indicates that many listed companies issuing lslamic debt are not complying with the information disclosure requirement.
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spelling uum-18932016-04-25T07:06:17Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1893/ Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia Ibrahim, Yusnidah HG Finance The fast growing of Islamic bonds issuance in Malaysia and worldwide, coupled with the lack of corporate finance literature that integrates the development of lslamic capital market motivate us to study the wealth effects of Islamic debt oferings and their determinants. It is found that the market reaction is significantly positive during event windows -3, 0 and -3, 3 surrounding the announcements of lslamic debt issuance. Five variables suggested by the capital structure literature, namely firms size (SIZE), issue size (AMT), leverage (LEV), free cash flows (FCF) and investment opportunity (Te) together with two new variables, the syariah compliant status (SYAR) and the Security Commission's (SC) approval (APPROVAL) were modeled as potential explanatory variables of the wealth effects.The analysis conclude that the wealth effect of lslamic bond issuance announcements is positively influenced by the issuer S investment opportunity and negatively influenced by the issue size, ,firm size and whether the announcement is accompanied by the SC approval. The finding implies that the positive reaction is not due to investors ' preference for Islamic compliant activities but it is due to similar factors,found in studies on conventional bonds.The negative influence of SC approval on the wealfh efect indicates that many listed companies issuing lslamic debt are not complying with the information disclosure requirement. Business Perspectives 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1893/1/Yusnidah_Ibrahim%5B1%5D.pdf Ibrahim, Yusnidah (2009) Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia. Journal Investment Management and Financial Innovations (1). pp. 184-191. ISSN 1810-4967 http://www.businessperspectives.org/component/option,com_journals/task,issue/id,103/jid,4/
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Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title_full Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title_fullStr Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title_short Islamic bond and the wealth effects: Evidence from Malaysia
title_sort islamic bond and the wealth effects evidence from malaysia
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