Determinants of bank lending rate in selected Asian countries / Nur Sharina Mohd Arshad

• Main Author: Mohd Arshad, Nur Sharina
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Credit. Debt. Loans
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/94463/1/94463.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/94463/

This study assesses the conduct of recent monetary policy especially on lending rate in Asian countries. The paper focuses on a general comparison of the landing rate of these countries, without going into a detailed description of the finacial structure of each one. It investigates the trends in lending rate spreads and documents the key determinants of lending rate. It can be used by banking sector to enchance the effiency of the banking sector and hence economic growth and development of Asian Countries. This study uses Multiple Regression Analysis with panel data. The data is collected from ten countries which are Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Brunei, Bangladesh, Japan, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Qatar for 2011 until 2015. The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between Bank Lending Rate with Inflation Rate, Gross Domestic Product, Non-performing Loan and Bank Reserves. This study expects to find that there is a relationship between the varibales.