Hasanuddin Islamic Finance and Institutions (HIFI) aims to become a leading venue for rigorous research that explains, evaluates, and improves Islamic finance by focusing on the institutions that make it work: financial intermediaries, Shariah governance arrangements, regulatory and supervisory frameworks, and Islamic social finance institutions. HIFI prioritises scholarship that offers clear theoretical contribution and actionable implications for policy, industry, and society.
HIFI has a distinctive mission to elevate research rooted in Indonesia’s Islamic finance ecosystem, including studies that capture institutional reforms, market maturation, product innovation, and the integration of social finance with development agendas. At the same time, HIFI actively seeks manuscripts from ASEAN, OIC countries, and global emerging markets, and strongly welcomes comparative, cross-country, and globally generalisable studies that enrich international debates and enhance the external validity of insights derived from specific contexts.
HIFI considers, but is not limited to the following topics:
- Islamic banking and non-bank Islamic financial institutions (intermediation, efficiency, inclusion, stability)
- Shariah governance and compliance (Shariah boards, Shariah audit, disclosure, governance effectiveness)
- Regulation, supervision, and systemic resilience (prudential frameworks, risk management, crisis response)
- Sukuk and Islamic capital markets (market development, pricing, liquidity, infrastructure finance, green/transition sukuk)
- Takaful and Islamic insurance (product design, consumer behaviour, solvency, claims dynamics, risk modelling)
- Islamic social finance institutions: zakat, waqf, sadaqah, and integrated ecosystems (impact evaluation, SDGs, delivery models)
- Halal economy financing and institutional support (SMEs, trade and investment, certification economics, value chain upgrading)
- Digital transformation and fintech-enabled Islamic finance (adoption, governance, inclusion outcomes), provided the primary contribution remains within economics, finance, and business