ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

This paper examines the performance of Malaysia’s banking sector and its relationship to the presence of Islamic banking in the country. More specifically, by controlling for the theoretically relevant determinants of bank performance we compare the efficiency, profitability and risk of Islamic bank...

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Main Author: Mansor Ibrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bank Indonesia 2020-09-01
Series:Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance
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Online Access:https://jimf-bi.org/index.php/JIMF/article/view/1197
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description This paper examines the performance of Malaysia’s banking sector and its relationship to the presence of Islamic banking in the country. More specifically, by controlling for the theoretically relevant determinants of bank performance we compare the efficiency, profitability and risk of Islamic banks to conventional banks and examine the spillover effects of Islamic banking penetration on bank performance. To these ends, we adopt a panel modelling approach. Taking note that our focal variables comprise the time-invariant Islamic banking dummy and potentially endogenous Islamic banking share, we apply the Hausman–Taylor (HT) instrumental-variable estimator in the analysis. Our results indicate that Islamic banks in Malaysia are less profitable than their conventional counterparts and that Islamic banking penetration is associated with lower bank profitability. However, the increasing presence of Islamic banking appears to make Malaysian banks less risky and, with limited evidence, more efficient. Finally, the efficiency–risk trade-off seems to have potential as the Islamic banking portion of the sector increases in size. These results are reasonably robust compared to alternative specifications of the model.
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spelling doaj.art-8c1e0669cfa7463ca8b9c958473352d62022-12-21T22:02:48ZengBank IndonesiaJournal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance2460-61462460-66182020-09-016310.21098/jimf.v6i3.11971197ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSISMansor Ibrahim0International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCIEF), MalaysiaThis paper examines the performance of Malaysia’s banking sector and its relationship to the presence of Islamic banking in the country. More specifically, by controlling for the theoretically relevant determinants of bank performance we compare the efficiency, profitability and risk of Islamic banks to conventional banks and examine the spillover effects of Islamic banking penetration on bank performance. To these ends, we adopt a panel modelling approach. Taking note that our focal variables comprise the time-invariant Islamic banking dummy and potentially endogenous Islamic banking share, we apply the Hausman–Taylor (HT) instrumental-variable estimator in the analysis. Our results indicate that Islamic banks in Malaysia are less profitable than their conventional counterparts and that Islamic banking penetration is associated with lower bank profitability. However, the increasing presence of Islamic banking appears to make Malaysian banks less risky and, with limited evidence, more efficient. Finally, the efficiency–risk trade-off seems to have potential as the Islamic banking portion of the sector increases in size. These results are reasonably robust compared to alternative specifications of the model.https://jimf-bi.org/index.php/JIMF/article/view/1197net marginsprofitabilityriskpanel models
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ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance
net margins
profitability
risk
panel models
title ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
title_full ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
title_fullStr ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
title_full_unstemmed ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
title_short ISLAMIC BANKING AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
title_sort islamic banking and bank performance in malaysia an empirical analysis
topic net margins
profitability
risk
panel models
url https://jimf-bi.org/index.php/JIMF/article/view/1197
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