Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis

The paper presents the productivity change of Malaysian banks for the period 2006-09 by employing Malmquist productivity index. The results reveal that throughout the study period, the productivity of Islamic banks (10.4%) was higher than that of the conventional banks (0.9%). Also, on an average...

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Main Authors: Rossazana, Ab. Rahim, Farhana, Ismail
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Published: Elsevier 2013
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spelling my.unimas.ir.183272022-01-25T08:12:30Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18327/ Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis Rossazana, Ab. Rahim Farhana, Ismail HB Economic Theory The paper presents the productivity change of Malaysian banks for the period 2006-09 by employing Malmquist productivity index. The results reveal that throughout the study period, the productivity of Islamic banks (10.4%) was higher than that of the conventional banks (0.9%). Also, on an average, productivity across Malaysian banking industry increased at an annual rate of 5.4%, which was mainly due to technical change rather than efficiency change. Therefore, this study suggests that Malaysian commercial banking industry can further increase its total factor productivity by improving its efficiency component. Elsevier 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18327/1/Farhana.pdf Rossazana, Ab. Rahim and Farhana, Ismail (2013) Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis. The IUP Journal of Bank Management, 7 (3). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0972-6918 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2372282
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Rossazana, Ab. Rahim
Farhana, Ismail
Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
description The paper presents the productivity change of Malaysian banks for the period 2006-09 by employing Malmquist productivity index. The results reveal that throughout the study period, the productivity of Islamic banks (10.4%) was higher than that of the conventional banks (0.9%). Also, on an average, productivity across Malaysian banking industry increased at an annual rate of 5.4%, which was mainly due to technical change rather than efficiency change. Therefore, this study suggests that Malaysian commercial banking industry can further increase its total factor productivity by improving its efficiency component.
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author Rossazana, Ab. Rahim
Farhana, Ismail
author_facet Rossazana, Ab. Rahim
Farhana, Ismail
author_sort Rossazana, Ab. Rahim
title Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
title_short Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
title_full Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
title_fullStr Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Productivity of Islamic and Conventional Banks of Malaysia: An Empirical Analysis
title_sort productivity of islamic and conventional banks of malaysia: an empirical analysis
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18327/1/Farhana.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18327/
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2372282
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