Abstract
This paper investigates the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency of 9 development financial institutions (DFIs) operating in Malaysia from 2006-2012 and factors affecting the efficiency of development financial institutions, using the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA). Results revealed that the mean technical efficiency of DFIs in Malaysia is 78 percent. Two banks namely BPMB and SCC are the benchmark banks identified by DEA scores. Results show that the role of scale inefficiency in overall technical inefficiency is comparatively less than managerial inefficiency. Results also show that only BPMB, SCC experienced constant returns to scale for the period 2006-2012, fulfilling their primary objective of contributing towards the socio-economy development of the state. BSN, a major saving institution, experienced decreasing returns to scale in 2009 and 2012. SME bank, whose mission is to develop SMEs, too experienced decreasing returns to scale during 2009-2010. CGC and Agro bank also experienced decreasing returns to scale in 2008-2009 and 2010-2012. In second stage, results of the OLS regression analysis provides that Loans to total assets, natural logarithm of total assets, Loan-Loss provision to total loans, non-interest income to total assets, return on assets and total shareholders’ equity to total assets are related to technical efficiency but loans to total assets, positively related to technical efficiency and significant and shows that banks with higher loan to asset ratios tend to have higher technical efficiency scores; non-interest income to total assets is negatively related to technical efficiency and significant revealing that development financial institutions which derive a higher proportion of income from non-interest sources tend to report lower efficiency scores. Return on assets are found significant in explaining the Malaysian development financial institutions efficiency from 2006-2012.
Highlights
Financial intermediaries provide financial services like payments, liquidity, store of value, divisibility, maturity transformation, risk pooling and information economies
This paper investigates the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiency of 9 development financial institutions (DFIs) operating in Malaysia from 2006-2012 and factors affecting the efficiency of development financial institutions, using the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA)
Results of the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis provides that Loans to total assets, natural logarithm of total assets, Loan-Loss provision to total loans, non-interest income to total assets, return on assets and total shareholders’ equity to total assets are related to technical efficiency but loans to total assets, positively related to technical efficiency and significant and shows that banks with higher loan to asset ratios tend to have higher technical efficiency scores; non-interest income to total assets is negatively related to technical efficiency and significant revealing that development financial institutions which derive a higher proportion of income from non-interest sources tend to report lower efficiency scores
Summary
Financial intermediaries provide financial services like payments, liquidity, store of value, divisibility, maturity transformation, risk pooling and information economies. Banks are the main intermediaries that provide a majority of the core financial services. They do not provide all services efficiently . Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) development financial institutions supplement banks by providing services in the form of development finance, that are not well suited to banks. Function of development finance is to categorize the cracks in establishments and markets in a country’s financial sector and acts as a concealer and is targeted at economic agents, which are rationed out of market. The vehicle for extending the development finance is popularly known as the development financial institution (DFI) or development bank
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