This paper examines the effectiveness of the bank lending channel in a dual banking system in Malaysia, where both … conventional and Islamic banks operate alongside each other. It also investigates the impact of bank competition on lending … ineffectiveness of the bank lending channel. Further, the empirical results suggest that the impact of monetary policy on bank lending …

We investigate whether lending by the Islamic Development Bank mirrors Saudi Arabia’s political interests based on … also evidence that lending by the World Bank to the same group of countries and over the same time frame does not respond … by assuming the leadership of a Regional Development Bank in contrast to coordinating common strategies in a global …