Abstract
Bangladesh entered into the era of financial reform during the early 1980s. Most of the reforms initiated by the government have concentrated predominantly on the banking sector. Consequently, many changes relating to ownership, market concentration, regulatory measures and policies have taken place primarily to enhancing bank performance. In this regard, this study is undertaken to investigate the performance of commercial banks after the implementation of significant financial reform. Data Envelopment Analysis based frontier measures income and cost efficiency and traditional non-frontier measures non-performing loans and return on assets have been used for assessing bank performance. The findings indicate that income and cost efficiency of sample banks have increased by 37.84 percent and 15.28 percent respectively in 2008 compared to 2001. Similarly, non-performing loans and return on assets also report improvement in bank performance. The results generated by regression models indicate that foreign ownership has a statistically significant positive impact on bank performance. On the other hand, private ownership has favorable impact on income efficiency, return on assets, and non-performing loans, whereas negative impact on cost efficiency.
Highlights
The atmosphere started to change when countries embraced the new regime of financial reform
The findings indicate that income and cost efficiency of sample banks have increased by 37.84 percent and 15.28 percent respectively in 2008 compared to 2001
The later part of the paper is organized as follows: section two gives a theoretical background of the previous researches conducted on bank performance after financial reform and the impact of ownership on bank performance, section three provides a brief overview of the banking sector of Bangladesh, section four elaborates the methodology of the study, section five concentrates on the analysis and findings, and section six provides the conclusion and directions for conducting further research
Summary
The atmosphere started to change when countries embraced the new regime of financial reform. This study is undertaken to investigate the performance of commercial banks after the implementation of significant financial reform.
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