Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan

When banks are considered fragile and what trigger them to be fragile? This research attempts to answer those questions by measuring bank fragility and identify probable factors determining bank fragility of the Malaysian commercial banking sector during the period of 1996-2011. Previous studies hav...

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Main Author: Mazlan, Nurul Farhana
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14286/
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description When banks are considered fragile and what trigger them to be fragile? This research attempts to answer those questions by measuring bank fragility and identify probable factors determining bank fragility of the Malaysian commercial banking sector during the period of 1996-2011. Previous studies have employed different methods to measure the bank fragility. Among the methods used are event study, "government intervention" in term of liquidity support to detect bank fragility and some prefers to use indicator such as Non-Performing Loan (NPL) to identify bank systemic risk. This research constructs the Banking Sector Fragility Index (BSFI) to measure fragility of commercial bank during the period studied. The index is then used to identify the determinants of commercial bank fragility. Results of BSFI show that the commercial banking sectors are in fragile condition from 1996 until 2000 and in a highly fragile stage between 1996 and 1998 since the BSFI are less than -0.50. In addition, findings based on the Logit regression analysis infer that the likelihood of Malaysian commercial banks to be fragile is significantly determined by total loans to total assets and interbank rate. While, Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) proved that bank specific factors and macro-economic factors have relationship with the level of BSFI.
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spelling uitm-142862024-11-18T08:14:50Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14286/ Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan Mazlan, Nurul Farhana Bank loans. Bank credit. Commercial loans Bank reserves. Bank liquidity. Loan loss reserves When banks are considered fragile and what trigger them to be fragile? This research attempts to answer those questions by measuring bank fragility and identify probable factors determining bank fragility of the Malaysian commercial banking sector during the period of 1996-2011. Previous studies have employed different methods to measure the bank fragility. Among the methods used are event study, "government intervention" in term of liquidity support to detect bank fragility and some prefers to use indicator such as Non-Performing Loan (NPL) to identify bank systemic risk. This research constructs the Banking Sector Fragility Index (BSFI) to measure fragility of commercial bank during the period studied. The index is then used to identify the determinants of commercial bank fragility. Results of BSFI show that the commercial banking sectors are in fragile condition from 1996 until 2000 and in a highly fragile stage between 1996 and 1998 since the BSFI are less than -0.50. In addition, findings based on the Logit regression analysis infer that the likelihood of Malaysian commercial banks to be fragile is significantly determined by total loans to total assets and interbank rate. While, Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) proved that bank specific factors and macro-economic factors have relationship with the level of BSFI. 2014-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14286/2/14286.pdf Mazlan, Nurul Farhana (2014) Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan. (2014) Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/14286.pdf>
spellingShingle Bank loans. Bank credit. Commercial loans
Bank reserves. Bank liquidity. Loan loss reserves
Mazlan, Nurul Farhana
Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title_full Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title_fullStr Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title_short Determinants of bank fragility: evidence from Malaysian commercial banks / Nurul Farhana Mazlan
title_sort determinants of bank fragility: evidence from malaysian commercial banks / nurul farhana mazlan
topic Bank loans. Bank credit. Commercial loans
Bank reserves. Bank liquidity. Loan loss reserves
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14286/