The Bank Lending Channel in a Dual Banking System: Evidence from Malaysia

33 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 2016

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Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Brunel University London - Department of Economics and Finance; London South Bank University; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Abdurrahman Nazif Catik

affiliation not provided to SSRN; Ege University Department of Economics

Mohamad Helmi

Brunel University London

Faek Menla Ali

University of Sussex

Mohammad Tajik

Brunel University London - Economics and Finance

Date Written: March 17, 2016

Abstract

This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks, over the period 1994:01-2015:06. A two-regime threshold vector autoregression (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account possible nonlinearities in the relationship between bank lending and monetary policy under different economic conditions. The results indicate that Islamic credit is less responsive than conventional credit to interest rate shocks in both the high and low growth regimes. By contrast, the relative importance of Islamic credit shocks in driving output growth is much greater in the low growth regime, their effects being positive. These findings can be interpreted in terms of the distinctive features of Islamic banks.

Keywords: bank lending channel, Malaysia, monetary transmission, threshold VAR

JEL Classification: C320, E310, E420, E580

Suggested Citation

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Catik, Abdurrahman Nazif and Catik, Abdurrahman Nazif and Helmi, Mohamad and Menla Ali, Faek and Tajik, Mohammad, The Bank Lending Channel in a Dual Banking System: Evidence from Malaysia (March 17, 2016). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5807, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2764798 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2764798

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Mohamad Helmi

Brunel University London ( email )

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Faek Menla Ali

University of Sussex ( email )

University of Sussex
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United Kingdom

Mohammad Tajik

Brunel University London - Economics and Finance ( email )

Uxbridge UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

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