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 … (technological change [TECHCH]). The results indicate that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity progress mainly …

, both foreign full-fledged Islamic banks and conventional banks with Islamic bank subsidiary exhibited negative productivity …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 …

, both foreign full-fledged Islamic banks and conventional banks with Islamic bank subsidiary exhibited negative productivity …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 …

banks. We also decompose productivity change into efficiency, technical, and scale change using a generalized Malmquist … productivity index. On average, Malaysian banks experience moderate scale economies and annual productivity change of 2.68%, with … that Islamic banking is associated with higher input requirements. However, our productivity estimates indicate that full …