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 …

The paper investigates the link between bank concentration and a country's buyout market. We perform a macro level … for the size of the buyout market. The elasticity ranges from 1 up to 3 percent depending on which bank concentration … measure is employed and what segment of buyout market we look at. We also find that bank concentration is irrelevant for the …