Market concentration of Malaysia’s Islamic banking industry
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the nature and changes of market concentration in the Malaysia’s Islamic banking due to the restructuring of Islamic banking industry within the liberalization wave in the banking market. A total of 17 Islamic banks operating over the period of 2000-2010 had be...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9025/1/jeko_49%281%29-1.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9025/ http://www.ukm.my/fep/jem/content/2015.html |
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| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to evaluate the nature and changes of market concentration in the Malaysia’s Islamic banking
due to the restructuring of Islamic banking industry within the liberalization wave in the banking market. A total of 17
Islamic banks operating over the period of 2000-2010 had been considered. The structural approach framework was
used to evaluate the nature and changes of market concentration in the Islamic banking industry in Malaysia. Under
this approach, various market concentration indexes has been calculated from year to year basis as proposed by the
industrial organizational field. Findings herein supported the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm where
different concentration ratios have decreased over the study’s period where this is reflected in the greater degree of
competition in the Malaysia’s Islamic banking industry. This study found an evidence that structural changes in the
Islamic banking market has changed the market structure of the respective market from moderately concentrated to low
concentrated market; whereby supporting the existence of competitive environment in the Malaysian Islamic banking
market. Present study contributed to new knowledge in banking market concentration particularly for Islamic banking
industry in the emerging economies such as Malaysia. Many past studies studying this issue had extensively examined
the conventional banking system, but only several studies were on Islamic banking market. Hence, this study may
enrich the existing literature on this issue, particularly for the Islamic banking industry. Policy recommendation from
the findings; first, Malaysian Islamic banking industry needs a contestable market environment as to enable them to
achieve better profit and efficient operation. Second, concentration ratios from this study can be used to identify the
optimal number of banking firms in the Islamic banking industry. |
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