This paper analyses the effects of off-balance sheet (OBS) activities and various types of risks on the cost and profit efficiencies of banks in seven East Asian countries between 2001 and 2008. Cost and profit efficiency scores are estimated using the data envelopment analysis approach. The...

Unlike most studies on the effect of monetary policy on bank lending, this article intends to answer the question whether the tightening of monetary policy in Malaysia before and after the financial crisis in 1997 affected differently the commercial bank lending to various sectors of the...

The issue of interdependence between international asset pricing had become an important topic in modern finance literature. It had received tremendous attention due to the increasing role of globalisation of market place. This is because globalisation had reduced the barriers to capital...

This paper analysed the effects of profitability and equity capital on bank efficiency of commercial banks in the developing countries. To achieve the objectives, the stochastic frontier approach is used in the first stage of the analysis to obtain cost and profit efficiency scores. In the...

: This paper investigates the importance of external factors in the domestic interest rate determination of Malaysia and measures the Malaysian financial market openness and domestic speed of adjustment to changes in foreign factors by capturing the effects of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997....

Changes in the ownership structure have been an important feature of the evolution of the Malaysian banking sector. In 1986, the Banking Act of 1973 was amended to limit equity ownership by individual companies in a bank to 20 percent, and by a family-owned company or an individual person to 10...

This paper examines the effects of macro-economic factors on bank efficiency of commercial banks in Asia, Middle East/North Africa, and Africa. To achieve the objective, the stochastic frontier approach (SFA) was used to simultaneously estimate the parameters of the stochastic frontier and the...

Numerous studies ranging from firm- to macro-level have been done on the impact of FDI on the host countries. However, to our knowledge, there are very few attempts to investigate whether the origin of FDI exerts different spillover effects on host countries. Hence, the objective of this paper...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the microfinance involvement of women’s household decision making.The cross sectional data for this study is collected by using questionnaires. Using random sampling, 744 households are selected from female clients of Khushhali Bank and...