IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/icf/icfjbm/v11y2012i3p36-52.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Productivity Gains of Financial Industry: Empirical Evidence from Malaysia

Author

Listed:
  • Rossazana Ab-Rahim

Abstract

The increased competitive forces due to the structural reforms in the banking environment stimulate the incumbents operating inside the production frontier. Banks invest more in innovation and technological tools; as a result, the production frontier shifts outwards. By employing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) (window analysis), this study investigates the trend of productivity in Malaysian commercial banking sector over the period 1995 to 2005. The productivity change is decomposed into technological change and technical efficiency change. During the study period, the growth in productivity was mainly contributed by the technological improvement rather than technical efficiency change. It is worth noting that the domestic commercial banks have exhibited technological progress as the source of productivity.

Suggested Citation

  • Rossazana Ab-Rahim, 2012. "Productivity Gains of Financial Industry: Empirical Evidence from Malaysia," The IUP Journal of Bank Management, IUP Publications, vol. 0(3), pages 36-52, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:icf:icfjbm:v:11:y:2012:i:3:p:36-52
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:icf:icfjbm:v:11:y:2012:i:3:p:36-52. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: G R K Murty (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.