The present study employs the state of the art bias-corrected Malmquist Productivity Index method to examine the sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The preferred methodology enables us to isolate efforts to catch up...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a new empirical evidence on the impact of economic globalization on the efficiency of the banking sector. The paper also investigates to what extent the internal (i.e. bank specific characteristics) and external (i.e. macroeconomic conditions)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector. The technique used by Oliveira and Tabak is extended by employing market data as input and output variables to individual bank stocks, which are listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE)....

By employing the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), this paper attempts to examine the effect of Non-Commercial Bank Financial Institutions (NCBFIs) revenue management strategy via diversification into the non-traditional activities during the period 2000-2004. To do so, the procedure is...

This paper investigates the performance of the Malaysian Islamic banking sector during the period 2001?2005. In the first stage, the productivity estimates of individual banks are evaluated using the nonparametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI). A multivariate analysis is employed in the...

Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to provide empirical evidence on the factors that influence non-commercial bank financial institutions (NCBFIs) profitability in a developing economy. Design/methodology/approach – The least squares methods of random effects, fixed effects, and...

The article employs the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) method to assess the impact of technological change on the obtained total factor productivity (TFP) of Malaysian banks during the period 1998–2008. The preferred methodology enables us to isolate efforts to catch up to the...

The non-parametric frontier approach, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to investigate the efficiency of banking stocks which are traded on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). Unlike the earlier studies which use balance sheet and income statements data, the paper uses market data...

In the mid-1990s, East Asian countries have experienced severe financial crisis that were followed by deep economic downturns. A variety of methodologies have been used to explain the Asian financial crisis. However, the impact of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 on the efficiency of the...