Providing Standing Facilities of Central Bank by Using Islamic Financial Instruments: A modern framework for monetary policy making in the interbank return rate corridor

This paper tries to evaluate the issue of monetary policy making in the interbank return rate corridor and the possibility of using this model in the context of Islamic banking in Iran. The results, which are extracted based on an analytical-descriptive approach, show that the conventional instrument of standing facilities are not Sharia-compliant and cannot be used in an Islamic context. However, it is quite possible to use the potentials of Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) to come up with Islamic alternatives for conventional instruments. In this paper, six Islamic instruments are suggested for designing the interbank return rate corridor in the Iranian banking system. It seems that the usage of these instruments can help the Iranian central bank to design the interbank return rate corridor and to strengthen the interbank market. This paper tries to evaluate the issue of monetary policy making in the interbank return rate corridor and the possibility of using this model in the context of Islamic banking in Iran.