Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?

This paper attempts to empirically analyse the Malaysian banking sector’s productivity during the period 1995–2004. The empirical findings suggest that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity regress during the period under study mainly due to technological regress, rather than effic...

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Main Author: Sufian, Fadzlan
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Language:English
Published: Inderscience Publishers 2010
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spelling iium-52612011-12-22T06:13:08Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5261/ Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress? Sufian, Fadzlan HG1501 Banking This paper attempts to empirically analyse the Malaysian banking sector’s productivity during the period 1995–2004. The empirical findings suggest that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity regress during the period under study mainly due to technological regress, rather than efficiency decline. The results suggest that the domestic banks’ productivity were almost stagnant, while the foreign banks have exhibited productivity decline. The relationship between different bank size and productivity indicates that the majority of Malaysian banks which experienced productivity growth were the medium and large banks group, while the majority of banks that experienced productivity regress belonged to the small banks group. Inderscience Publishers 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5261/1/IJBAAF020104_SUFIAN.pdf Sufian, Fadzlan (2010) Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress? International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 2 (1). pp. 80-110. ISSN 1755-3830 (Print); 1755-3849 (Online) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijbaaf
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Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
description This paper attempts to empirically analyse the Malaysian banking sector’s productivity during the period 1995–2004. The empirical findings suggest that the Malaysian banking sector has exhibited productivity regress during the period under study mainly due to technological regress, rather than efficiency decline. The results suggest that the domestic banks’ productivity were almost stagnant, while the foreign banks have exhibited productivity decline. The relationship between different bank size and productivity indicates that the majority of Malaysian banks which experienced productivity growth were the medium and large banks group, while the majority of banks that experienced productivity regress belonged to the small banks group.
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author Sufian, Fadzlan
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title Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
title_short Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
title_full Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
title_fullStr Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
title_full_unstemmed Antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
title_sort antecedents of banks’ productivity growth in a developing economy: efficiency change or technological progress?
publisher Inderscience Publishers
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/5261/
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