Relation Between Banking Profit Rate and Economic Growth via Hsiao Causality Method in Selected Islamic Countries

The course of banking profit rate toward economic growth has always been one of the most important subjects in economic discussions. In Islamic countries, banking profit rate has also been a factor in their economic development and growth in different conditions. Accordingly, Islamic financial systems, via mobilizing financial sources and leading them toward generating products, can have a key role in the development of Islamic countries. The fluctuations that occur in the banks’ profit rate have affected, more or less, other economic affairs, and they become the cause of sluggishness, pause or reactivation of some production courses. Meanwhile, specifying the type of relation between economic growth and banking profit rate, unlike what it shows, is one of the unknown relations.This essay has investigated the causal relationship between economic growth and banking profit rate in selected Islamic countries via Hsiao Causality Method during the years 2004-2010. The results of the research indicate the absence of causality relation from banking profit rate to economic growth. On causal relation from economic growth to banking profit rate, stronger results indicate the absence of this relation.