Section VII discusses the main theme of the paper: the stability of the Islamic financial system [The paper discusses stability of Islamic banks at a theoretical level. finance and foreign transactions would be covered in its ambit. where the agent cannot (or does not) assign actual probabilities to following essential ingredients for outlining the basic rules under Islamic markets offer different instruments to satisfy providers and users of funds in a variety of ways: sales, trade financing, and investment. Musharaka or Mudaraba are not workable for whatever That the risk and liabilities of ownership lie with the lessor. bank had really ventured to trade and incurred a slight loss, then the In order to contain runaway inflation caused by low interest rates, the central bank might be compelled to apply practical quantity theory of money and force ceilings on money and credit, thus abandoning interest rates control. Interest rate setting as a cause of financial instability. Under securitization, the credit multiplier becomes theoretically infinite. interest-free economy were hampered by many obstacles. Stability of the Islamic Financial System. It may, for instance, undertake trade operations, or it may finance crop transactions. Minsky classified borrowers, according to their balance sheet and ability to make interest and principal payments, in three distinct categories, which are labeled as hedge, speculative, and Ponzi finance. The basic tenets of Islamic finance are clearly stated by Allah SWT in the following two verses: Quran, Chapter 2, verse 275: Those who devour usury will not stand except as stands one whom the Evil One by his touch hath driven to madness. All the rest were either trade-related or investment-type models. Hedge financing units are those which can fulfill all of their contractual payment obligations by their cash flows. To All rights reserved. Islam is not against the earning of money. Establishment of the One of these is that the financier should also share in the risk so as not to shift the entire burden of losses to the entrepreneur, and the other is that an equitable share of financial resources mobilised by financial institutions should become available to the poor to help eliminate poverty, expand employment and self-employment opportunities and, thus, help reduce inequalities of income and wealth. The investing company shall Thornton, H., 1802, An Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain, Edited by F. R. A. v. Hayek. 136 likes. In such system, the central bank has the sole monopoly for creating money. The Fed did so after the 1987 stock market crash, the Gulf war, the Mexican crisis, the Asian crisis, the LTCM debacle, Y2K, and the internet bubble burst. Islamic banking, also referred to as Islamic finance or shariah-compliant finance, refers to finance or banking activities that adhere to shariah (Islamic law). The power of banks to create and destroy money on a large scale has caused large fluctuations in output and employment and became a source of considerable monetary uncertainties. Currently, there are approximately 100 Islamic equity funds worldwide. With the central banks forcing credit expansion in order to stimulate growth and employment, at the expense of creditworthiness, or to finance fiscal deficits through abundant liquidity, financial institutions will not be immune to financial instability, even if they comply fully with Basle I and II guidelines. Examples of sub -rime loans were NINJA loans (no income, no job, no asset borrowers) that were extended to NINJA borrowers and were rated AAA by reputed rating agencies]. The term riba covers all forms of interest and is not limited to usury or excessive interest only. By interest-based loans the lender will accumulate increasing amount of wealth despite the borrowers profit or loss. present world, there was no alternative to interest, yet something had to be capital (rabbul ma'l). listed companies, are applicable to Modarabas, including statutory audit, However, Minsky's endogeneity analysis, while integrating Keynes' views regarding instability of expectations and Schumpeter's view on creative destruction adapted to financial innovations, is not fully supported by facts. It may lose part of the loan if sales proceeds from crops fall short of the amount of loan. action the factor of labour, a process from which benefits pass on to In many countries, unions and labor laws can be an obstacle for full employment, since price and wage rigidities can become inimical to full employment in any economy and a source of exchange rate overvaluation]. The double assessment of risks by both the financier and the entrepreneur should help inject greater discipline into the system, and go a long way in reducing excessive lending. reasons, they have been reshaped and allowed in Shari'ah subject to An investment banking system which operates on risk and profit sharing basis with an overall rate of return which is positive and determined by the economy growth rate. The provider of financial capital and the entrepreneur share business risks in return for shares of the profits. The process of securitization can be replicated indefinitely. basis to the investing company as provided in the projected accounts. Justice requires a set of rules or moral values, which everyone accepts and faithfully complies with. to the contract. Exhibit 6: Contrasting Islamic and Conventional Banking, 3. Section VI analyzes the mechanics of the credit multiplier. What will be its impact on growth and employment? agency that can mobilise financial resources from the public by paying them Financial intermediation in Islam is different from that in a conventional system. When their liabilities become valueless, losses are born by banks, and massive bankruptcies erupt. Takaful fund where the investee company earmarks a part of their reserves First, assume depositor at Bank 1 writes a check for $100 to a beneficiary whose bank is Bank 3, then Bank 1 will be in difficulty of payment, and will be caught. The seller or lessor must own and possess the goods being sold or leased. Investment is equal to savings, and aggregate supply of goods and services is always equal to aggregate demand (implying that Say's law applies in the case of Islamic finance). only superficial and in reality the new system was no different from the Notwithstanding its far reaching and devastating consequences, the crisis has made the quest for financial stability a pressing and fundamental issue in economics and finance. ", "When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover that check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money. "Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquillity, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. For this purpose, the Islamic financial system does not allow the creation of debt through direct lending and borrowing. Such policy has been effective in maintaining financial stability and precluding speculative booms and inflation even in the conventional system. treated like any other factor of production and must earn some return over a commands of Allah (SWT), and The Prophet (SAW). In the wake of each episode, massive bankruptcies ensued, leading to millions of jobs lost and to economic decline. only 1 to 12 means of financing (only two were classified as "Financing by ), instead Eminent economists who lived through the Great Depression fought very hard to establish a banking system, based on some pillars of Islamic finance, capable of preserving long-term financial stability. that no tangible good or service is exchanged for any monetary ", "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. The lower the savings rate, the lower economic growth will be. Economic uncertainty has never been as high. Risk is further segregated from The possession of goods takes place in physical terms, and not in form of financial or speculative contracts. The fundamental principles of an Islamic financial system can be summarised as follows: The prohibition of interest is founded on the prohibition of riba, a term literally meaning “an excess” and interpreted as “any unjustifiable increase of capital whether in loans or sales”; this is the central tenet in mutual dealings. The Chicago Plan basically divides the banking system into two components: a warehousing component with 100% reserve requirement and an investment component with no money contracts and interest payments, where deposits are considered as equity shares and are remunerated with dividends, and maturities are fully observed. Deposits at an Islamic financial institution could be seen as shares or equities and, unless insured, are subject to risks [Risks facing Islamic banks are credit risk, market risk, foreign exchange risk, displaced commercial risk, operational risks, and governance risk (See Archer and Abdel Karim 2007 for detailed analysis)]. Further elaboration of the rules is provided by scholars in Islamic jurisprudence within the teachings in the Qur’an and Sunnah. Only those business activities that do not violate the rules of Shari’ah qualify for investment. have the option to exercise its put option at the value price and the exchange, and their certificates of issue will be tradable securities. allowed to appoint the prospective buyer as their agent for the purchase of Minsky looked at all participants in the economy -- households, companies and financial institutions -- in terms of their balance sheets and cash flows. take delivery of the underlying asset but does not carry any attached In short, by means of monetary injections, the central bank makes sure that the banking system is "liquid enough" so that banks will not bankrupt each other. According to Minsky's definition, the greater the weight of equity financing in the liability structure, the greater the likelihood that the unit is a hedge financing unit. Unfortunately nothing has In contrast, the greater the weight of speculative and Ponzi finance, the greater the likelihood that the economy is a deviation-amplifying system. It is unanimously believed that although Islamic financial system differs from western ones, it still needs to have a functioning primary markets for corporate securities. Severe financial turbulences occurred in1837, 1873, 1893, and 1907. It has to be a full partner; it buys fertilizers on behalf of farmers and makes available financing for operating costs; it participates in the marketing activity of crops. When financial instability persists, access to borrowing becomes unavailable. Banks are not the only financial institutions competing fiercely with one another for profits. strictly on Islamic principles. There is therefore a wealth creating activity that generates new cash flows and not money creation by the stroke of the pen as in the case of conventional system. Interview with Mr Hamad Rasool Bhullar, analyst . No wonder the minister of finance for Bangladesh described microcredit interest rates in that country as extortionate in an address he delivered at a microcredit summit in Dhaka in 2004. Sharp credit contraction, deflation of asset prices, and bankruptcies that follow thereafter explain economic recession or depression. It manifests itself through a regularly deficient treasury position, whereby the sources of funds fall short of uses of funds or payments obligations. The Banking or banking activity that complies with sharia (Islamic law)—known as Islamic banking and finance, or shariah-compliant finance —has its own products, services and contracts that differ from conventional banking. It can be observed that total money expansion is $125 with a money multiplier equal to 1.25, and $1000 with money multiplier equal to 10 in Islamic and conventional system, respectively [[1] If the savings rate is 10 percent of GDP, and reserve requirement is 5 percent of deposits, then total deposits become $111 and $2,000 under an Islamic and conventional banking system, respectively. As described earlier, in the light of the two basic cornerstones of of making profit that would have to be forgone and many types of modern The overall balance of the consolidated account should be sustainable for financial stability to be maintained over time]. The philosophical foundation of an Islamic financial system goes beyond the interaction of factors of production and economic behaviour. By examining the monetary survey of any country, it can easily be observed that money in circulation is many folds the high powered money, or the base money. Accordingly, Thornton argued that central bank should abandon interest rate pegging and regain control of money supply through ceilings on credit and monetary aggregates [In the same vein, Friedman (1968) strongly argued that central bank cannot control interest rate or unemployment rate. agreement, with reference to the commencement of rentals. Islamic Financial System has a broad variety of goods and tools that can have a beneficial effect on policymakers in any sector from the bottom 20 (B20) end users. Inflation erodes the real value of money, meaning Under these conditions, interest rates will explode. additional return to be at additional risk and, in effect, in a competitive In all of this type of finance, either the acquired assets are financial papers, or loans that have no real backing, and do not contribute to generate real activity and income. system can be fully appreciated only in the context of Islam's teachings on the business ethic, wealth distribution, social and economic justice, which are at the centre of a moral economy. The Global Financial Crisis: Can Islamic Finance Help? Friedman, M., 1972, An Economist's Protest, Thomas Horton and Company, New Jersey. Certainly, the Great Depression of 1929-1933 was the worst episode of financial instability in modern history. Exhibit 6 compares the process of deposit creation under Islamic and conventional systems assuming a saving ratio of 20 percent of real GDP and reserve requirement ratio of 10 percent of deposits, respectively. In Spain and the Mediterranean and Baltic states, Islamic merchants became indispensable middlemen for trading activities. Theoretically, while an Islamic system faces no risk of a run or credit freeze, conventional system may face a risk of a run and credit freeze. Section IX concludes. Some arrangement needs to be made to make credit available to subprime borrowers at affordable terms to enable them to buy a home and to establish their own microenterprises. All rights reserved, The global financial crisis: can Islamic finance help?'. [ 8 ], (c) 1998 Ravil Hairetdinov. The Islamic Financial System assumes that the individuals of the Islamic state are brothers unto each other. The central bank wants only to control interest rates and stands ready to supply any amount of money required to maintain interest rate pegged at a fixed target rate, regardless of creditworthiness, and to support the price of government bonds and finance fiscal deficits, via essentially open market operations. The list of assets and goods that may attract speculation could be endless, and may include all types of commodities futures, bonds, gold, agriculture land, buildings, housing, stocks, and foreign exchange. The object of speculation has varied from boom to boom. He distinguished between the market (loan) rate of interest rate and the interest rate (marginal rate of profit or natural rate) which equilibrates savings and investment. finance lease, to be distinguished from an operating lease, wherein B. Advance rentals are admissible subject to the condition of The key feature of a Ponzi scheme is its need to attract ever greater sums of money. This will help save the financial system from crises resulting from widespread defaults by such borrowers. He argued that two dominant factors were responsible for each boom and depression: over-indebtedness in relation to equity, gold, or income which starts a boom, and deflation consisting of a fall in asset prices or a fall in the price level which starts a depression. Socio-economic justice is central to the Islamic way of life. other activities that are socially harmful in one way or system of interest. so accustomed to their money remaining safe and yet earning profit that if a In such a system, a financial institution therefore participates directly in the evaluation, management and monitoring of the investment process [Criticism was made that operational cost is higher than in conventional banking because of close monitoring and involvement in the investment process. the relation of investors to the institution is that of partners whereas that of conventional banking is that of creditor-investor. With the ascendancy of Western influence and its Galbraith (1954), Kindleberger (1977), and Soros (2008) found that speculative manias gather speed through expansion of money and credit. amount of rent, as with an inflation index etc., is permissible There is no credit creation out of thin air. Introduction A financial system that is based on Islamic principles and values, which eliminates riba and ensure a profit sharing mechanism in the financial system. 58, No. There is general consensus that contagious financial instability is caused by unsustainable fiscal and money policies and by beggar-thy-neighbor trade policies at the level of reserve currency centers. In Quran and Sunnah, Islamic finance has always been conceived as the finance activity of an Islamic economy where social equity is enhanced through mandatory zakat. the investee company on account of future profits. 1-17. The liabilities of the financial institution are covered by tangible real assets that are owned directly by the institution. instrument for replacing interest-based transactions, it poses formidable banking system is loan based. Stability of the Islamic Financial System, IIBI Institute of Islamic Banding and Insurance. Destabilizing financial and economic shocks are still intensifying in credit, commodities, and currency markets; as in the case of Japan during 1990-2001, they could foreshadow a prolonged contraction of output growth and employment. The Avoiding gambling (maysir or qimar) 4. for an agreed-upon period of time called the term of lease. this effort and therefore, the results of such an effort obviously cannot be banking services which which also could not be provided by a bank working institutions to change over their operations from lending to trading has While studying the financial crises and Islamic finance, we must consider another reason, and that is relationship. By charging of their financing to this type. the corpus or ownership of the property which remains with the transferor. and not to the debt. It appears therefore that the role of the central bank makes the present conventional financial system unstable and vulnerable to financial turmoil. if Thus if Bank A is short of $100, it can sell some of its assets to the central bank for cash. He maintained that the government can reflate the price level through printing money to finance deficit needed to kick-start economic recovery. It hit hard in the US and Europe, causing large scale bankruptcies, debt deflation, steep fall in output (by over one third in real terms) and prices, and massive unemployment and poverty. It focuses on the social cost of financial instability; namely, when the central bank tries to socialize losses from a speculative boom through large bailouts, it sets an inflationary process. Copyright © 2021. While financial instability has not been a rare occurrence, its severity and duration have varied. Brokers' loans, with very small margins and low interest rates, expanded very fast and fueled stock market speculation. restructuring the fiscal policy which comprises a scheme for the Absent highly stable and predictable monetary framework, financial institutions will face recurrent financial instability with increased frequency [Henry Simons (1948) sharply criticized monetary uncertainty, which stems from unpredictable changes in credit and money and near-money aggregates, unpredictable changes in interest rates, and proliferation of money and credit instruments (i.e., financial innovations)]. During periods of stability people feel more confident. The central bank does not refinance banks as in conventional banking. Section III -IV have analyzed the causes of instability in a conventional financial system from a historical perspective and attributed these causes to the credit system, abundance of liquidity, speculation, and interest rate setting by the central bank. This condition also puts a constraint on short sales, thereby removing the possibility of a steep decline in asset prices during a downtown. The second activity is an investment activity whereby deposits are considered as longer-term savings and banks engage directly in risk taking in trade, leasing, and productive investment in agriculture, industry, and services. must be determined at the time of the contract. As the pace of unbacked credit expands, relative to the supply of real savings, less becomes available to genuine wealth generators, all other things being equal. and Modarabah followed by Salam and Istinsa. payments have to be made while some expected inflows may not be forthcoming They participate directly in production and trade operations on a profit-loss sharing basis [Typical Islamic products are Mudarabah, Musharaka, Murabaha, Istisnaa, and Ijara (See Hassan and Lewis 2007 for detailed definitions)]. However, the contract must specify these items government or public leaders. whether or not the earning of profit has made someone else worse off. He advocated a system in which all financial wealth would be held in equity form, with no fixed money contracts, so that no institution that was not a bank could create money substitutes]. Representing the collapse of trillions of fictitious credit derivatives and the meltdown of uncontrolled credit growth, the scope of the crisis and its intensity only kept worsening and could reach unmanageable size [The size of the credit derivatives (ABSs, CDSs, etc.) existing system. In the international field, reforms have suggested restoration of gold standard to eliminate basis for rapid expansion of credit at domestic and international levels; or alternatively, establish a world single currency to rein in credit expansion and financial and exchange rates instability. of the asset to the lessee and not from the day of payment or lease Such bailout is inflationary and will impose a tax on money holders, creditors, wage earners and pensioners in favor of debtors. The modern banking system is based on the concept that money should be Many types of financial transactions and instruments are excluded from Islamic finance, particularly interest rate-based bonds, securities, finance based on securitization of fictitious assets, speculative finance, hedge funds, and consumer finance that is not backed by real assets. back after one year, he has made a net loss. Mirakhor (1988) finding establishes a basic difference between Islamic banking where profitability is fully secured by real economic growth and conventional banking where profitability is not driven primarily by the real sector [Conventional banks may suffer large losses, as seen recently in many industrial countries, in spite of continuing real economic growth]. An investor evaluates an Securitization of assets exerts a powerful multiplication of credit, and makes credit expansion enormously greater than in a credit system without securitization. It is, therefore, important to reduce their risk and expense. It is basically lease-based. Islamic Financial and Economic Systems: A lot of scholars have penned down books on the topic of Islamic Finance and economic systems. Such units need to roll over their liabilities — issue new debt to meet commitments on maturing debt. Hence a decline in them is also not likely to hurt the real economy. This system has to be a fee-based system to cover the cost of safekeeping and transfers and payments services. determining the appropriate interest Minsky contended that nowhere is evolution, change and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship more evident and the drive for profits more clearly a factor in making for change than in the conventional banking and finance. There is no credit creation which is not backed by real savings, the amount of deposits in the investment branch will be determined by real savings and savings to income ratio (Mirakhor, 1988), and not by credit multiplier as in conventional banking. mix of, Type "C" is within the framework of a creditor-debtor relationship, and was also consequently eroded. instrument each period, the communications industry would cease to exist in Section V analyzes the recent episode of international financial instability, and shows that it was caused by monetary expansion in reserve centers and beggar-thy-neighbor policies in pursuit of short-term economic growth gains, and recalls the notion of a common world currency as a remedy to international financial instability. He will not keep this money idle at Bank 1. levies, utilities, etc. Moderate and brief booms and recession may be generated by good crops, productivity, technical change, or by adverse shocks. Knowing that leasing is lawfully allowed under Sharia'h, since it meets In banking, stability means that assets and liabilities maturities are matched, assets preserve their values and do not depreciate, and the amount of IOUs is fully backed by gold or warehouse deposits that served for issuing these IOUs. A major source of inflation is modifications that really conform to the rules under Sharia'h, Haque, Nadeem Ul and Abbas Mirakhor, 1999, The Design of Instruments for Government Finance in an Islamic Economy, Islamic Economic Studies, Vol. Let the reserve requirement ratio be 10 percent, the initial home loan issued by Bank1 will work through the system and entails a cumulative credit expansion equal to 1000. Since Murabiha was the type nearest to lending and since it did not Such instability and its inflationary or deflationary impacts can be traced to interest-based financial practices and policies. Based on the article on Islamic Financial System by Zamir Iqbal, World Bank publication. Quran, Chapter 2, verse 276: Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity; for He loveth not creatures ungrateful and wicked. As recent financial crisis as well as previous financial instability episodes were essentially caused by overly expansionary monetary and credit policies in many industrial as well developing countries there is certainly a need for a Basle III agreement that would regulate regulators, i.e., central banks, and set guidelines for safe central banking aimed at financial stability and not at full employment. implementation was also another great impediment to the achievement the goal tickets or else reflect the individual's own subjective beliefs). It is, therefore, important that microcredit is provided to the very poor on a humane, interest-free basis (qard hasan). His core model is known as Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH), which simply declares stability is inherently unsustainable. happen. Soon after the war, warring powers rushed to establish the Bretton-Woods system with the mandate to stabilize world economy, adopt fixed instead of highly volatile and flexible exchange rates, and take steps to mitigate the causes that led to monetary instability of the pre-war period. Monetary Expansion and the Credit Multiplier, 1. This warning was heeded by the Muslim maximisation process may lead to perverse outcomes. These two permitted lending without interest by charging the actual Islam, through its Islamic The bursting of the boom caused in turn asset price deflation and banking failure. Depositors have become Archer, S. and Abdel Karim, R. A., 2007, Islamic Finance: The Regulatory Challenge, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. 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