Volume 24 No. 2, August 2025
MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTING REVIEW, VOLUME 24 NO. 2, AUGUST 2025
https://www.doi.org/10.24191/MAR.V24i02-03
NON-RISK-SHARING FINANCING IN INDONESIAN ISLAMIC BANKS: THE ROLE OF MARKET POWER
Agus Widarjono1♣, Md. Mahmudul Alam2, Abdur Rafik3, Kurniawan Azra1, Zhafira Mardhiyah4
1Departmen of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sitok, Kedah, Malaysia
3Department of Management, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia,
4Department of Accounting, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Most Islamic banks provide more non-risk-sharing financing, which is nothing but debt financing like the loan of conventional banks. They favor this financing due to low-risk financing. Our study investigated the determining factor of non-risk-sharing financing in Indonesian Islamic banks using panel regression with unbalanced data, consisting of 31 banks and employing data from 2015:Q1-2020:Q4. The findings indicated that market power strengthens non-risk-sharing financing. This finding indicated that the more uncompetitive the market is, the more Islamic banks tend to favor non-risk-sharing financing. However, bank stability reduces non-risk-sharing financing, indicating that more stable banks prefer risk-sharing financing. This reason is reinforced by the reverse relationship between non-risk-sharing financing and bank size. Furthermore, this study documented that the impact of market power on non-risk-sharing financing diminishes as high stability holds. Evidence also highlighted that the effect of market power and stability on non-risk-sharing financing was more prominent for Islamic bank windows than full-fledged Islamic banks.
Keywords: Islamic banks, Non-risk-sharing financing, Market power, Bank fundamentals, IndonesiaJEL: G21, G32, L11
♣ Corresponding Author: Agus Widarjono; Departmen of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Email: agus.widarjono@uii.ac.id
ARTICLE INFO
Article History:
Received: 20 April 2024
Accepted: 5 July 2024
Available online: 1 August 2025


