نشریه تحقیقات مالی اسلامی
پیاپی 11 (پاییز و زمستان 1395)

Economic behaviors are among the main issues in economy, especially Islamic economy. In this context, one of the weaknesses of the Islamic economics is the scarcity of experimental study on Muslim's behaviors. This paper has done an experimental study to estimate the effect of religious social capital on Qartholhasan payment behavior at the micro level using resource generator tool along with income, age and property. The data were collected through survey and questionnaires and analyzed by econometric method. The survey population was the households in the city of Zahedan and the sampling consisted of 504 heads of households in the community. The results show that religious capital, property, income, bank deposits and received interest have a significant effect on Qardholhasan payment. Also, the household size and education have meaningful effect on that. Innovations of this paper are the empirically testing at micro-level of the Islamic doctrine, entering the religious capital based on recognized scientific tools in the survey, along with other variables that influence economic behavior.

After exceeding eight years from its establishment, and despite its considerable size of dealings, Iran's Rial Interbank Market has not yet managed to develop its position in the state’s money market through creation of necessary diversities in transactional mechanisms. Application of treasury bills as a short-term monetary instrument is globally fostered. After adoption of sale of debt in the state’s monetary system, application of Islamic treasury bills was lodged in the 2014 Budget Act. Supplying these bills in the capital market one year later could result in formation and development of a secondary market for such bills. The main question of this research is posed as “How could Islamic treasury bills be used to promote the efficiency of Iran's Rial Interbank Market?” By explicating the performance and recognizing Iran's Interbank Market shortcomings, the present article intends to examine the application of Islamic treasury bills as a short-term monetary instrument in Iran's Interbank Market. Findings of this study achieved through a descriptive-analytical methodology by referring to Shiite jurisprudence and finance texts are expressive of the fact that Islamic treasury bills are capable of being applied in Iran's Rial Interbank Market.

Financing is one of the most important challenges in various sectors of economy including electric power industry. Thus, this industry needs financial innovations to design financial institutions and instruments for funding itself. In Iran, developing power industry faces some challenges because it mainly depends on government budget and it lacks enough financial resources for its development proportionate to the electricity consumption growth. Therefore, the Ministry of Power and Energy, as the main policymaking body in electric power industry in Iran, is facing financial resource deficit and is seeking the participation of the private sector for investing in power industry.
One of the necessary requirements for the private sector participation in electric power industry is appropriate financial solutions and instruments that correspond to the electric industry. Capacity certificate is a financial instrument designed for financing electric power industry to enable it to develop new powerhouses. Using descriptive/analytical method and based on Imamiyah jurisprudential School and the regulations of Iran's capital market and the needs of power industry, the financial instrument for capacity certificate is introduced in this paper.

One of the most useful tools in the risk management and portfolio management is "stock index futures contracts". Applications such as various portfolio risk management, single stock risk management, index arbitrage, spreading and others have made them one of the most popular derivative securities with investment managers. However, sharia studies by Shia and Sunni scholars in the field of Islamic financial instruments have provided some reasons against using these securities due to their creating some challenges. To remove these jurisprudential inhibitions, this paper suggests "index funds futures" rather than stock index futures contract. Nowadays, there are mechanisms and legal infrastructures that are required for setting up index funds in stock markets. Index funds are therefore used that can create return after costs of fund along with minimum tracking errors. This study, while pointing out different dimensions of stock index futures and index fund, determines what type of stock index has similar behavior to index of Iranian capital market. The research is descriptive and relies on analytical – deductive methods and library documents.

Treasury stock in its particular sense is a stock which has been repurchased, owned and maintained by the issuer for the purpose of being offered in the future. Few countries have recognized this and our country has recently adopted it. Despite its economic and financial justifications, it is not justified by legal analysis. This paper, based on a descriptive/ analytical analysis, has reviewed various pertinent views about the stock nature, and has criticized it according to Islamic law principles. It seems this stock is not justified on the basis of any of the common views about the nature of stock and it is to be considered as an expropriation or detention of property ownership. However, based on the opinion of a group of scholars who have recognized the stock as a common ownership of the company capital, the ownership of shares by the company itself can be justified.

A survey of investor's behavior in financial markets has always been one of the substantial topics for monetary and fiscal policymakers. The adoption of new financial instruments in the capital market in Iran has necessitated this more than before. The aim of this study was to test the herding behavior of investors in the application of Islamic securities (sukuk) in the capital market during the period 1390 to 1394 in Iran. This was performed by using Yao et al model and correlation and regression analysis method in 22 companies which issued Ijarah sukuk. The results of testing the herding behavior in the lease sukuk (Ijarah) in Iran's secondary market during the period under review show that herding behavior among investors in Ijarah sukuk is not verified. Also, the results have shown that investors in this market have not shown herding behavior in periods of stress.These results suggest the relative stability of returns on investment in the Ijarah Sukuk market in Iran.