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The Impact of Foreign-Owned Islamic Banks and Islamic Bank Subsidiaries on the Efficiency and Productivity Change of Malaysian Banks تأثير البنوك الإسلامية المملوكة لأجانب والبنوك الإسلامية الفرعية على الفعالية وتغير الإنتاجية للبنوك الماليزية

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  • Mariani Abdul-Majid

    (Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia)

  • M. Kabir Hassan

    (Professor, Department of Economics and Finance University of New Orleans, New Orleans.)

Abstract

The paper examines the efficiency of a sample of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia for the period 2000 to 2008, using a stochastic frontier approach, and mainly focuses on determining the impact of foreign-owned Islamic bank and Islamic banking subsidiaries on performance. We model the impact of bank characteristics such as Islamic banking and foreign ownership, after taking into account the distinction between full-fledged Islamic banks as opposed to Islamic banking windows operating within conventional banks as well as Islamic banks operating as subsidiaries of conventional banks. We also test the impact of economic crisis, public ownership and mergers on bank efficiency. In contrast to domestic conventional banks with Islamic window, our results show that full-fledged Islamic banks have higher input requirements. In addition, using a generalised Malmquist productivity index, we decompose productivity change into efficiency, technical, and scale change. Unlike foreign full-fledged Islamic banks, conventional banks with Islamic bank subsidiary have relatively higher efficiency. However, both foreign full-fledged Islamic banks and conventional banks with Islamic bank subsidiary exhibited negative productivity change, attributed to negative rate of technical change and scale change effects. Despite the flexibility in operation, the newly converted bank subsidiary may need sometimes to develop technology, while foreign Islamic banks may need more time to overcome their output disadvantages. الورقة تبحث فعالية عيّنة من بنوك إسلامية وتقليدية في ماليزيا، للفترة من 2000 إلى 2008م بطريقة ستوكاستيكية رائدة، وتركز أساساً على تحديد تأثير البنوك الإسلامية المملوكة للأجانب والشركات التابعة لها على الأداء. نحن نمثل تأثير خصائص البنك مثل المصرفية الإسلامية والملكية الأجنبية، بعد الأخذ بعين الاعتبار الاختلاف بين البنوك الإسلامية كاملة النضوج وشبابيك المصرفية الإسلامية التي تعمل تحت البنوك التقليدية بالإضافة إلى البنوك الإسلامية التي تكون تابعةً لبنوك تقليدية. نحن كذلك نختبر تأثير الأزمات الاقتصادية، الملكية الحكومية والاندماج على فعالية البنك. على النقيض من البنوك التقليدية المحلية ذات شبابيك المصرفية الإسلامية، نتائجنا تبين أن البنوك الإسلامية كاملة النمو لديها متطلبات إدخال أعلى. بالإضافة، باستخدام مؤشر الإنتاجية مالمكويست معمم، نقسّم تغير الإنتاجية إلى فعالية، وتغير (تكنيكال) (technical) و(سكيل) (scale). على عكس البنوك الإسلامية الأجنبية كاملة النمو، البنوك التقليدية التي تملك بنوك إسلامية فرعية لديها فعالية أعلى نسبيًا. ولكن، كلا البنوك الإسلامية الأجنبية كاملة النمو والبنوك التقليدية التي تملك بنوك إسلامية فرعية تُظهران تغير إنتاجية سلبي، تُنسب إلى تأثيرات المعدل السلبي للتغير التقني والتغير الحجمي. برغم المرونة في العمليات، فرع البنك المحول حديثا قد يحتاج بعض الوقت لتطوير التقنية، بينما البنوك السلامية الأجنبية قد تحتاج لوقت أطول لتتغلب على عوائق الإخراج.

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  • Mariani Abdul-Majid & M. Kabir Hassan, 2011. "The Impact of Foreign-Owned Islamic Banks and Islamic Bank Subsidiaries on the Efficiency and Productivity Change of Malaysian Banks تأثير البنوك الإسلامية المملوكة لأجانب والبنوك الإسلامية الفرعية عل," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 24(2), pages 147-174, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:24:y:2011:i:2:no:5:p:147-174
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.24-2.5
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