Does Islamic stock sensitivity to oil prices have economic significance?

Narayan, PK; Phan, Dinh; Sharma, SS

doi:10.26181/60640ae8574cb

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Does Islamic stock sensitivity to oil prices have economic significance?

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posted on 2021-03-31, 05:38 authored by PK Narayan, Dinh PhanDinh Phan, SS Sharma

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. This paper uses an extensive new dataset of 2178 Islamic stocks with historical monthly data (1986–2014) and examines their sensitivity to oil price changes. We find that only around 32% of these stocks react statistically significantly to oil prices, dispelling the common notion that oil prices affect the stock market homogeneously. We show that trading on oil price sensitivity offers investors annualized profits in the range of 5.8–13.6%. These results pass multiple robustness tests.

History

Publication Date

2019-01-01

Journal

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

Volume

53

Pagination

16p. (p. 497-512)

Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0927-538X

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