Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks

As one of the key financial intermediaries, banks play a significant role as providers of credits and liquidity to the Asean economies. Banks are able to execute this economic role efficiently provided they are profitable. The issue is: What affects banks' net interest margins in this region?...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Md Nayan, Najat, Ariff, Mohd
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/1/N2.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/
http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000234396
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.uum.repo.3562
record_format eprints
spelling my.uum.repo.35622011-11-17T06:26:19Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/ Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks Ahmad, Nor Hayati Md Nayan, Najat Ariff, Mohd HG Finance As one of the key financial intermediaries, banks play a significant role as providers of credits and liquidity to the Asean economies. Banks are able to execute this economic role efficiently provided they are profitable. The issue is: What affects banks' net interest margins in this region? This paper investigates six factors affecting net interest margin (NIM) of conimercial banlts in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand over 1998 to 2002. Although the banks are operating in different economies: the investigation reveals that loan to deposit ratio significantly affects the banks' NIM in all six Asean countries. Operating expenses to total assets and leverage emerge as the next significant factors affecting NIM of banks in most of the Asean countries. The findings also show that adjusted R-squared for Australian, Thailand and New Zealand banks falls within 38-42 percent range while R-squared for Malaysia, Korea and Japan falls within 15-37 percent range. The implications of the results are discussed in the paper. 2004 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/1/N2.pdf Ahmad, Nor Hayati and Md Nayan, Najat and Ariff, Mohd (2004) Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks. In: Asia Pacific Economics and Business Conference 2004, 7-9th October 2004, City Bayview Hotel, Penang, Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000234396
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Utara Malaysia
content_source UUM Institutionali Repository
url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
language English
topic HG Finance
spellingShingle HG Finance
Ahmad, Nor Hayati
Md Nayan, Najat
Ariff, Mohd
Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
description As one of the key financial intermediaries, banks play a significant role as providers of credits and liquidity to the Asean economies. Banks are able to execute this economic role efficiently provided they are profitable. The issue is: What affects banks' net interest margins in this region? This paper investigates six factors affecting net interest margin (NIM) of conimercial banlts in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand over 1998 to 2002. Although the banks are operating in different economies: the investigation reveals that loan to deposit ratio significantly affects the banks' NIM in all six Asean countries. Operating expenses to total assets and leverage emerge as the next significant factors affecting NIM of banks in most of the Asean countries. The findings also show that adjusted R-squared for Australian, Thailand and New Zealand banks falls within 38-42 percent range while R-squared for Malaysia, Korea and Japan falls within 15-37 percent range. The implications of the results are discussed in the paper.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahmad, Nor Hayati
Md Nayan, Najat
Ariff, Mohd
author_facet Ahmad, Nor Hayati
Md Nayan, Najat
Ariff, Mohd
author_sort Ahmad, Nor Hayati
title Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
title_short Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
title_full Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
title_fullStr Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting net interest margin of ASEAN banks
title_sort factors affecting net interest margin of asean banks
publishDate 2004
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/1/N2.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/3562/
http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000234396
_version_ 1644278537959505920
score 13.211869