Bouri, ElieDemirer, RizaGupta, RanganMarfatia, Hardik A.2018-02-152019Elie Bouri, Riza Demirer, Rangan Gupta & Hardik A. Marfatia (2019) Geopolitical Risks and Movements in Islamic Bond and Equity Markets: A Note, Defence and Peace Economics, 30:3, 367-379, DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1424613.1024-2694 (print)1476-8267 (online)10.1080/10242694.2018.1424613http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63956This study applies a non-parametric causality-in-quantiles test to examine the causal effect of geopolitical risks on return and volatility dynamics of Islamic equity and bond markets. Geopolitical risks are generally found to impact Islamic equity market volatility measures, rather than returns. However, geopolitical risks tend to predict both returns and volatility measures of Islamic bonds. Interestingly, causality, when it exists for returns and/or volatility of Islamic equities and bonds, is found to hold over entire conditional distributions of returns and volatilities, barring the extreme ends of the same.en© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an electronic version of an article published in Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 367-379, 2019. doi : 10.1080/10242694.2018.1424613. Defence and Peace Economics is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/gdpe20.Geopolitical risks (GPRs)Islamic stock and bond marketsReturns and volatilityQuantile causalityPostprint Article