摘要:This paper examines the effectiveness of the bank lending channel in a dual banking system in
Malaysia, where both conventional and Islamic banks operate alongside each other. It also investigates
the impact of bank competition on lending channels in financial systems. Using panel data
from both Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia, our findings indicate the ineffectiveness
of the bank lending channel. Further, the empirical results suggest that the impact of monetary
policy on bank lending does not depend on bank competition. In other words, the effectiveness of
the lending transmission channel does not depend on the market power of the individual banks.
Furthermore, the effectiveness of the lending channel appears to be independent of whether the
bank is Islamic or conventional. This result is probably explained by the fact that the vast majority
of Islamic banks in Malaysia are subsidiaries of conventional banks. Policymakers therefore do not
need to differentiate between conventional and Islamic banks in regard to the effectiveness of the
bank lending channel.