Impact of Risk and Competition on Indonesian Islamic Bank Performance: Panel Data Evidence

This paper examines the impact of banking risk and competition on the performance of Islamic banks in Indonesia. The study used financing to deposit ratio (FDR) as a representation of liquidity risk, non-performing financing (NPF) as a representation of financing risk, and the operating expense ratio (BOPO) as a representation of operational risk. Regarding competition, market share (MS) and market concentration (MC) proxies by the Hirschman–Herfindahl Index (HHI) were used. Time series data were collected from 14 Islamic banks operating in Indonesia for the period 2010–2020 and the Least Square method was used. It was found that liquidity risk affects positively the profit of Islamic banks, while financing risk and operational risk impact negatively the variation of the profit. Only market share, influences the variation in the profit of Islamic banks in terms of competition level. Therefore, the Indonesian government should apply a competition policy to the Islamic banking sector in order to increase their profitability and improve economic growth. For future research, it is recommended to include other Islamic finance institutions like Islamic rural banks and Islamic takaful (Islamic insurance) to analyse these effects in a general way.