University of Bochum, ICMA Centre, University of Reading

Self-Adjusting Profit Sharing Ratios for Musharakah Financing

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/22/2019 - 16:20

Banks avoid participatory financing due to serious information asymmetries, adverse selection and moral hazard problems resulting in negative impacts for the return on capital provided. Even financing instruments with a participatory legal form such as musharakah sukuk have been stripped of their risk sharing substance and become functional equivalents of interestbearing bonds.