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This paper examines the ownership concentration and structure, and analyzes its impact on firm productive efficiency. A stochastic frontier model with inefficiency effects is fitted to an unbalanced panel dataset of 31 government-linked companies (GLCs) listed at Malaysia's Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia) over a period of 12 years (2001-2012). The results of the analysis reveal the government's shareholdings...
This paper examines directors' incentive, a key corporate governance mechanism, and analyze its impact on technical productive efficiency. Using stochastic frontier production model, the parameters are fitted simultaneously with the inefficiency effects to an unbalanced panel dataset of 31 GLCs listed at Malaysia's Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia) for a period of 9 years (2001–2009). After controlling...
This paper attempts to identify the significance of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and intellectual human capital to the profit efficiency of commercial banks in Malaysia. The profit efficiency of commercial banks in Malaysia was estimated using the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) on a sample of unbalanced panel data, covering 23 commercial banks, between 1995 to 2009. Based on...
The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether demographic factors affect repayment performance of the non-bank financial institution customers in Kuching, Sarawak. Data required for analysis are collected using structured questionnaire from the existing housing loan, personal loan and business loan customers of non-bank financial institutions in Kuching. Findings showed that 55% of the...
This paper attempts to identify some factors that affect the profit efficiency of commercial banks in Malaysia. The profit efficiency of commercial banks in Malaysia, the dependent variable, was estimated using the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) on a sample of unbalanced panel data, covering 23 commercial banks, between 1995 to 2007. Based on the empirical results, ICT was not found to exert a...
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