The impact of Islamic banking on the cost efficiency and productivity change of Malaysian commercial banks

Abstract

This study employs Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to analyse Malaysian commercial banks during 1996–2002, and particularly focuses on determining the impact of Islamic banking on performance. We derive both net and gross efficiency estimates, thereby demonstrating that differences in operating characteristics explain much of the difference in costs between Malaysian banks. We also decompose productivity change into efficiency, technical, and scale change using a generalized Malmquist productivity index. On average, Malaysian banks experience moderate scale economies and annual productivity change of 2.68%, with the latter driven primarily by Technical Change (TC), which has declined over time. Our gross efficiency estimates suggest that Islamic banking is associated with higher input requirements. However, our productivity estimates indicate that full-fledged Islamic banks have overcome some of these cost disadvantages with rapid TC, although this is not the case for conventional banks operating Islamic windows. Merged banks are found to have higher input usage and lower productivity change, suggesting that bank mergers have not contributed positively to bank performance. Finally, our results suggest that while the East Asian financial crisis had a short-term costreducing effect in 1998, the crisis triggered a long-lasting negative impact by increasing the volume of nonperforming loans.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840902984381
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Applied economics 2011 © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00036840902984381
Uncontrolled Keywords: Stochastic Frontier Analysis,Malaysian commercial banks,Islamic banking,performance,efficiency estimates,Malmquist productivity index,Economics and Econometrics
Publication ISSN: 1466-4283
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 09:49
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2013 09:24
Full Text Link: http://www.tand ... 036840902984381
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2011-06
Published Online Date: 2009-07-06
Authors: Abdul-Majid, Mariani
Saal, David S.
Battisti, Giuliana

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