Assessing the Impact of Crude Oil Price and Investor Sentiment on Islamic Indices: Subprime Crisis

Achraf Ghorbel, Mouna Abdelhedi and Younes Boujelbene

Journal of African Business, 2014, vol. 15, issue 1, 13-24

Abstract: This article attempts to shed light on the impact of oil prices, investor sentiment, and conventional index on 11 Islamic indices, particularly during the subprime financial crisis and the oil crisis. Empirical evidence suggests that the Malaysian and Indonesian Islamic indices are very much affected by the oil volatility. Estimation results of the BEKK-GARCH model reveal that the pessimistic sentiment during the subprime crisis is transmitted to Islamic indices, suggesting the herding contagion. The authors' finding indicates that investors can use VIX investor sentiment as an indicator to predict Islamic returns volatility. In addition, the authors find that the oil shock has spilled into Islamic indices. The time-varying correlation indicates strong evidence of the contagion effect of crude oil and investor sentiment measure to Islamic indices during the oil shock and U.S. financial crisis period of 2008--2009.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2014.881222

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