Spin-off policy and efficiency in the Indonesian Islamic banking industry

  • Received October 5, 2017;
    Accepted December 23, 2017;
    Published January 15, 2018
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/bbs.13(1).2018.01
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    Volume 13 2018, Issue #1, pp. 1-10
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Indonesian Islamic Banking Act requires conventional banks to spin-off their Islamic business units if they had fulfilled the spin-off criteria. Some of the Islamic business units had done the spin-off process although they are not fulfilling the spin-off criteria. The data showed that there is an efficiency decline after the spun-off. This study is going to examine the spin-off’s impact on the efficiency in spin-off banks. The method used in this paper is a difference-in-differences analysis. The sample used is four spin’s banks as treatment objects and two Islamic full-pledge banks as control objects. This research shows that there is an impact of spin-off policy on the efficiency in spin-off banks. There is an efficiency decrease in spin-off banks after the activities. It implies that the spin-off policy is not the only strategy that can be implemented. The policy-makers can choose other strategies to enhance the development of Islamic banking industry.

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    • Figure 1. The theoretical framework of Islamic bank spin-offs
    • Table 1. The operational efficiency of spin-off banks
    • Table 2. Difference-in-differences framework
    • Table 3. Estimation results of spin-off and performance