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Table 2 Description of Variables

From: Determinant of credit risk of Islamic banks in Pakistan

S. No

Name of variables

Proxy for variables

Sign

References

 

Dependent

Variable

  

1

Credit risk

(Non-performing loans/total loans) * 100

CR

 
 

Independent

Variables

  

2

Gross domestic product

Log of (Consumption + Govt. spendings + Investments + Net Exports)

GDP

Wiryono and Effendi [18]

3

Inflation

[(Current CPI – initial CPI)/initial CPI] * 100

INF

Priyadi et al. [16]

4

Growth in the interest rate

(Current year rate – Previous year rate)/current year rate

INT

Kasana and Naveed [10]

5

Size

Logarithm of total assets

S

İncekara and Çetinkaya [8]

6

Return on assets

Net profit/total assets

ROA

Shah et al. (2021)

7

Loan loss provision

(Loan loss provision/total loan) * 100

LLP

Al-Wesabi and Ahmad [4]

8

Capital adequacy ratio

(Capital/risk weighted assets) * 100

CAR

Alzoubi and Obeidat [5]

9

Asset quality

(Total loan/total assets) * 100

AQ

Ekinci and Poyraz [7]