Shariah complaints firms listed on Bursa Malaysia. This paper also attempts to identify whether the Shariah compliant firms are showing the same micro variables factors that determine systemic risk. The systematic issues have become the main concern to many related parties such as policy makers, investors and stakeholders as systematic risk is unable to be removed through diversification. Shariah compliant firms have their own unique systematic risk owing to their difference in business philosophy. A hypothesis between the relationship of the firms-specific micro variable factors and systemic risk are established on foregoing studies and theoretical framework respectively, and analyzed using the Fixed Effects Model tested on the data from 80 listed companies covering a period from 2009 to 2018. The results show that leverage and growth are the most significant factors of the systematic risk of Shariah compliant firms. Therefore, high leverage and growth firms are considered to be hig.....

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Macroeconomic variables may influence the issuance of Sukuk. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between macroeconomic variables namely Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, inflation, rules of law, corruption of control and political stability. This study used a panel data study consisting of 11 countries that were mostly involved in the issuance of Sukuk. The countries are Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. The data was generated from 2006 until 2015 and collected from the authorized sources such as the Islamic Finance Information Services (IFIS), World Development Indicator and World Economic Outlook. This research employed several statistical methods like descriptive statistics, unit root test, and correlation analysis. In order to meet the objective of this research, an econometrics estimation of Pool Ordinary least square model, Fixed Effect Model and Random.....

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