Abstract
The issue of credit risk among financial institutions has become de rigueur matter for many years particularly among risk managers, market players, regulators and academia in Malaysia. The negligence over specific credit risk factors in credit risk management could herald to the balance sheet loss as what happened in the US mortgage prime crisis. This paper is presented primarily to investigate the long run and short run relationship between credit risk and bank specific factors such as capital adequacy(CAR), loan loss provisioning(PROV) and risky assets (RWA) across different types of banks comprising Islamic banks, Islamic banking windows, commercial banks and investment banks in Malaysia. The application of heterogeneous panel model namely Pooled mean group (PMG) will allow for heterogeneity effect across non-homogenous banking operations. From our findings, it is evident that an increase in capital level reduces default problem for Islamic banking windows. Further, we find positive association between RWA and NPL and also between PROV and NPL which implies that loan loss provisioning could be important signal of risk taking behaviour. Besides that, our results also suggest that the nature of credit risk among Islamic banks in Malaysia are still following market force given by the fact that their credit risk management routines still follow the conventional practices.
Highlights
The proliferation of fictitious profits in the lead-up to the financial crisis, since the onset of the financial crisis of 2007-2018 and the resulting Great Recession, radical political economists have debated the role of profitability in what has been the most severe systemic crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s (Smith and Butovsky, 2012)
The research findings are in line with the agency theory, audit committee financial expertise is found to have a significant positive influence on profitability
COE and foreign ownership have a positive influence on profitability
Summary
The proliferation of fictitious profits in the lead-up to the financial crisis, since the onset of the financial crisis of 2007-2018 and the resulting Great Recession, radical political economists have debated the role of profitability in what has been the most severe systemic crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s (Smith and Butovsky, 2012). If companies do not worry about agency conflicts, they might face the problem of profitability or insolvency at large These agency conflicts predominantly occur in modern companies as a result of the separation concerning ownership and management (Berle and Means, 1932); (Jensen and Meckling, 1976). The incentive alignment theory advocates that more equity ownership by the manager may increase corporate performance because it means better alignment of the monetary incentives between the management and other equity owners (Jensen and Meckling, 1976). This paper examines the interactive role of audit committee financial expertise on the relation concerning ownership structure and profitability for Nigerian listed financial institutions
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