House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia

The pricing benchmark is usually used as a guide to calculate the rate of return of the financing. In the case of Malaysia, it is not known whether residential property values have significant relationship with the general performance of the economy. We propose that the house price in...

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Main Authors: Redzuan, Nur Harena, Kassim, Salina
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: 2015
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Kassim, Salina
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description The pricing benchmark is usually used as a guide to calculate the rate of return of the financing. In the case of Malaysia, it is not known whether residential property values have significant relationship with the general performance of the economy. We propose that the house price index to be a viable benchmark of the real values of property to determine the price of Islamic home financing product. This study compares two models; the existing pricing benchmark which relies on interest rate and the alternative pricing benchmark which relies on the house price index. It examines the long-run relationship of the two benchmark rates with selected macroeconomics variables. By comparing the interest-based benchmark with the non-interest benchmark, this study attempts to highlight the sensitivity of the two benchmarks to the real economic conditions. Focusing on quarterly data covering the period from 2001 to 2014. The study finds that the non-interest benchmark, House Price Index have significant long-run relationships with the macroeconomic variables. It shows that this alternative benchmark has the connection to the economic movements that lead to the stability of the non-interest financing instruments. The findings of this study would provide important insights on the viability of the Housin g Price Index as the alternatives to benchmark of the Islamic financing home financing product. This study contributes to the empirical evidence for the feasibility of adopting interest-free benchmark to price Islamic home financing product.
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spelling iium-461062019-02-12T01:42:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/ House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia Redzuan, Nur Harena Kassim, Salina HB Economic Theory HG Finance The pricing benchmark is usually used as a guide to calculate the rate of return of the financing. In the case of Malaysia, it is not known whether residential property values have significant relationship with the general performance of the economy. We propose that the house price index to be a viable benchmark of the real values of property to determine the price of Islamic home financing product. This study compares two models; the existing pricing benchmark which relies on interest rate and the alternative pricing benchmark which relies on the house price index. It examines the long-run relationship of the two benchmark rates with selected macroeconomics variables. By comparing the interest-based benchmark with the non-interest benchmark, this study attempts to highlight the sensitivity of the two benchmarks to the real economic conditions. Focusing on quarterly data covering the period from 2001 to 2014. The study finds that the non-interest benchmark, House Price Index have significant long-run relationships with the macroeconomic variables. It shows that this alternative benchmark has the connection to the economic movements that lead to the stability of the non-interest financing instruments. The findings of this study would provide important insights on the viability of the Housin g Price Index as the alternatives to benchmark of the Islamic financing home financing product. This study contributes to the empirical evidence for the feasibility of adopting interest-free benchmark to price Islamic home financing product. 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/2/05_Dr_Salina_Paper_1_Full.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/6/46106.pdf Redzuan, Nur Harena and Kassim, Salina (2015) House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia. In: 3rd International Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance (CIFEMA' 2015), 11th-12th Dec. 2015, Agadir, Morocco. (Unpublished) http://www.encg-agadir.ac.ma/doc_pdf/cifema/CIFEMA-programme.pdf
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
HG Finance
Redzuan, Nur Harena
Kassim, Salina
House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title_full House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title_fullStr House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title_short House price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for Islamic home financing: evidence of Malaysia
title_sort house price index as an alternative pricing benchmark for islamic home financing: evidence of malaysia
topic HB Economic Theory
HG Finance
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/2/05_Dr_Salina_Paper_1_Full.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/46106/6/46106.pdf