Stability of the Participation Banking Sector Against the Economic Crisis in Turkey

Metin Aktas
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Metin Aktas: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business, Nigde University, Turkey.

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2013, vol. 3, issue 1, 180-190

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze whether participating banking sector is more stable than conventional banking sector during the global economic crisis. The main point is that which banking system are financially less affected from the global economic crisis. For this anlysis, we have used trend analysis method for 2006-2011 on yearly basis. In this study, yearly financial ratios of conventional and participating banking sectors were utilized. Financial ratios can be sorted as profitability, liquidity, risknesss and asset quality ratios. Results of the study show that participating banking sector is more stable than conventional banking sector in terms of profitability, riskiness and liquidity during the analysis term which includes 2008 global economic crisis. In addition, both sectors are almost similiar and stable in terms of asset quality.

Keywords: Participation banks; conventional banks; economic crisis; stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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