IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION OF BANKS ON PROFITABILITY

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1 Volume I, Issue I (2017) pp IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION OF BANKS ON PROFITABILITY Publication No. SM-17-I-III Hassan Ali 1 (Corresponding author) hassanalib22@gmail.com MS Scholar, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. Dr. Ayaz ul Haq 2 ashar11pk@gmail.com Assistant Professor, University of Central Punjab, Rawalpindi Campus. ABSTRACT Many studies have already been conducted on the impact of privatization on the profitability of banks considering data of 5-10 years before privatization and 7-17 years after privatization. Data of recent years (i.e. last 4-5 years) has not been considered for investigation of the impact of privatization on the profitability of banks. Therefore, this work has been conducted on the data of 4-10 years just before privatization and years just after privatization of only two banks. All data, used in this research, are taken from annual reports of respective banks. Thus, the used data can be termed as secondary data. Analysis has been done by incorporating two methods; one is manual analysis, and the other is paired sample t-tests using SPSS software. For this research, a total of five variables (i.e. Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), Total Assets (TA), Deposits, and Investments) which measure the profitability of banks, were considered. The results suggested that the efficiency of the banks enhanced after privatization giving uplift to their profitability. Keywords: Pre-Privatization, Post-Privatization, ROA, ROE, Total Assets, Investment, Deposit. 24

2 Introduction Before the independence, till March 1947, Reserve Bank of India had been performing as the central bank for the whole nation till 30 th September Pakistan would have been in great danger if it did not have access to the currency and banking. Multiple attempts have been made to stabilize the economy. For example, initial Habib Bank performed its best to improve currency status of Pakistan. Families under banking companies ordinance 1947 were given three months to improve the status of banks, to remove any hurdle and make the withdrawal of money easier. At the time of separation, there were 75 crore rupees in cash balance which were left undivided by Indian Government. A breakthrough happened when the Banking Companies Act was passed in December 1948, to empower the state bank to monitor operations of banking institutions in Pakistan. Another bank was set up to create a financial institution i.e. National Bank of Pakistan, under ordinance The banking system was reformed in May 1972; Government nationalized State Bank of Pakistan and commercial banks as well and took them under its observation and control. Banks Act 1974, under the State Bank of Pakistan, was implemented on January 1, Late Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto nationalized the fourteen financial, commercial banks. Until December 31, 1973, there were fourteen Pakistani financial, commercial banks working in the country and some foreign branches working effectively. Some financial institutions merged with the other banks because they were financially weak. In previous ten years, both in the value of transaction and conditions of the number have developed in the privatization of activity. By 1990s, annual average enhanced to about 500. The GDP of fiscal decline was 8.5 percent in An intensive literature research (through previous studies and annual reports) was done to get information of the privatized banks in Pakistan and their profitability ratios before and after privatization. Previous researchers used various approaches to study the impact of privatization of banks on profitability; and methods used in the previous researches included liquidity ratios and solvency ratios; Regression Analysis on non-performance loan, a time series model on profitability ratios, liquidity ratios, and solvency ratios and the Data Envelopment Analysis (i.e. mean, MESE (mean estimated standard error), variance, and standard deviation) of Input Assets. Bank efficiency was taken as a ratio of MESE; before privatization to MESE after privatization. Also, to the best of the author s knowledge, the data considered was up till 2010 for all of these banks. No one has used data of recent years (i.e. last 4-5 years) to investigate the impact of privatization on the profitability of banks. Therefore, just after privatization of only two banks HBL and UBL with the data considered up to 2014 is the main concern of this research. No one used the recent data up to 2014 to study profitability ratios which this research does, and then Paired sample t-tests have also been performed using software SPSS on the collected data. 25

3 There is a general perception that the profitability of banks in Pakistan has increased after their privatization. Only four banks i.e. MCB, ABL, HBL and UBL have been privatized in the history of Pakistan. Many studies have been conducted on assessing their profitability after their privatization. Since MCB and ABL were privatized in 1990s, thus a lot of research work has already been done on their profitability considering data of many years i.e. 10 years before and 17 years after privatization. On the other hand, HBL and UBL were privatized in 2004 and 2002, respectively, thus limited research is being done on their profitability considering a limited number of years i.e. 5-8 years before and 7-8 years after privatization. Also, to the best of author s knowledge, the data considered was up to 2010 for all of these banks. No one has used data of recent years (i.e. last 4-5 years) to investigate the impact of privatization on the profitability of banks. Thus, there is a need to work on the profitability of before and after privatization which will help in better understanding the impact of privatization on the profitability of banks in Pakistan. In this research, the impact of privatization on profitability has been studied on data of 4-10 years just before privatization and years just after privatization of only two banks, with the data considered up to The research is done by two methods, one is manual analysis, and other is paired sample t-tests using software SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The study identifies with two banks beforehand filling in as public sector banks and later on as privatized banks. The explanation behind the choice of these two banks was the accessibility of information for both pre and post-privatization period. In a few zones managing a banking sector as entire is taken according to prerequisites of the study. This study depends on secondary data (published data). Literature Review The financial history was perceived in the waves of nationalization and privatizations, together being protected in similar community and competence states. Theoretical illustrations can scarcely differentiate between competence and dominance of different ownership measures (Vickers and Yarrow, 1988). "Privatization is a term which is used to protect numerous diverse elements, and is probably another means of moving the relations among the government and the private sector" (Kay and Thompson, 1986). It has discussed serious issues in the competency about the service businesses. The number of transactions is the output of the banks and the labour, number of applications of credit and number of accounts is the input of the banks (Oral & Yolalan, 1990). The regular three years and the pre-privatization of the operating performance ratio relate three years, 18 states and 32 industries in the value for 61 firms. The output of the post-privatization rises in both ways economically and statistically (Megginson, Nash, & Randenborgh, 1994). The results of this study show that the performance of improvement is reasonable (Verbrugge, Megginson, & Owens, 1999). The average of post-privatization financial performance relates three years, and the pre-privatization of the 26

4 operating performance ratio relate three years, the 21 developing states in the value for 79 firms (Abid, 2003). In the period of 1990 to 2001; the annual data of 69 banks were inspected to study the influence of privatization on the performance. It showed that the impact of competency due to privatization of the banks (Beck, Cull, & Jerome, 2003). In 33 banks in Taiwan, the performance of operating competency was measured. It used the DEA method to measure competency which is affected by loan services, portfolio investment, and interest income and non-interest income. The proportional position of several types of input and output methods was used for the financial ratio analysis (Chen & Yeh, 1998). In the banking sector, competency is the main concern of both the instructors and the bank executives. The study requires exploring the competency of financial institutions, finding out the factors that contribute to the competency of the financial system and to recommend the means to reach the peer group of competency levels (Hanif, 2002). A study explored 68 Indian banks and analyzed the association between strategic groups and firm performance in terms of competency. It used financial variables as output as well as the input of the banks (Mukherjee & Nath, 2002). The study explored 48 Croatian commercial banks using the DEA method to find out the competency. It used the three inputs like fixed assets and software, number of employees and deposits and two outputs like loans extended and short-term securities (Jemric & Vujcic, 2002). The experiential results suggest a strong competitive financial market for the accomplished market participants that to lead the competency of the organizations and progress the performance and output. Sometimes these tests approved the effects of liberalization and deregulation of financial institutions on competency and efficiency of the banking sector (Berger, Hunter, & time, 1993). Most of the time, it required banks to be efficient after the liberalization of the seventies in the United States (Elyasiani & Mehdian, 1990). In banking sector of Turkey, the lapse of efficiency after financial liberalization has been reported. The state-owned banks are better than private and foreign banks (Denizer, 2000). Hardy and Patti found some competency improvements in Pakistan (Hardy & Patti, 2001). It is widely debated in economic literature that monetary markets play an important part in the financial growth and progress (Gertler, 1988; Levine, 1997). It is recently proven that the findings of empirical literature function better in monetary structures which play an important role in economic progress (Levine & Zervos, 1998; Levine, Loayza, & Beck, 1999). The data was collected in 92 states, and the results showed that the output of the monetary system increases with growth rate and economic growth rate in the impact of government possession. It was found that the government possession is wide, especially in poor states and it delays the monetary structure progress, and controls the financial growth rates thus frequently influences the efficiency (LaPorta, Silanes, & Shleifer, 2000a). 27

5 Advanced banking plays a vital role in the recent commerce; it is compulsory for the financial progress (Rajan & Zingales, 1998). Main current papers in this literature are written by Kunt and Maksimovic (1998). This literature is mostly included in a sequence of articles by Porta and Silanes (1999). In the 1980s and 1990s, the advanced states like UK and Spain played their role in contribution in the economy from one high state to another low state (Winston, 1998). Finally, the hypothesis is developed to check whether there is any relationship between the variables or not. There are two hypotheses; one is a null hypothesis (Ho) and other is an alternative hypothesis (H1). These hypotheses are defined for the considered five variables as follows: 1 Ho: (ROA) b < (ROA) a H1: (ROA) b > (ROA) a 2 Ho: (ROE) b < (ROE) a H1: (ROE) b > (ROE)a 3 Ho: (TA) b < (TA) a H1: (TA) b > (TA) a 4 Ho: (Deposits) b < (Deposits) a H1: (Deposits) b > (Deposits) a 5 Ho: (Investments) b < (Investments) a H1: (Investments) b > (Investments) a Methodology 28

6 The sample consists of two of the four banks. The reason for taking two banks is that the data considered just after privatization was 6-8 years only. The central issue addressed is the impact of privatization on profitability ratios of two banks. For Bank 1, data of 10 years before and 10 years after privatization up to 2014 is considered. For Bank 2, data of 4 years before and 12 years after privatization up to 2014 is considered. The reason for using only 4 years data before privatization of bank 2 is the unavailability of previous years data. All data, used in this research, is taken from annual reports of respective banks, thus used data is secondary data. It may be noted that some of the data from annual reports are not matching with the data of previous researches. The collected data has been analyzed in a tabular form for ROA and ROE as described in this section of the years considered just before and after the privatization of Bank 1 and Bank 2, whereas, Total Assets, Deposits, and Investment have also been compiled in the same table. Paired sample t-tests have also been performed using software SPSS on the collected data for ROA, ROE, Total Assets, Deposits, and Investments for the considered years just before and after the privatization of Bank 1 and Bank 2. Firstly, paired sample statistics were performed in which mean, standard deviation and standard error mean were determined. Secondly, paired differences were taken for mean, standard deviation and standard error mean along with degrees of freedom (df) to get values of t and Sig (2-tailed). It may be noted that 10 years data of Bank 1 just before and after privatization was available. But, for Bank 2, only 4 years data just before privatization was available whereas 12 years data after privatization was available. In order to perform a paired sample t-test on data of Bank 2, dummy values of 4-12 years data before privatization were taken. Results and Discussion Results and Discussion of Manual Analysis For Bank 1 The Profitability ratios of Bank 1 from are shown in Table 1. The overall results of ROE show that its trend is growing in a slow manner. The ROA fluctuation in these years is both upward and downward but ultimately, has the upward trend after privatization. The results of the total assets show that they are moderate in nature as it was decreasing before privatization years and then increased after privatization years. The deposits have a decreasing trend with a flatter slope, but in post-privatization, the trend has rapidly increased, and its positive value shows a relatively better efficiency. The result of investment also shows that it is increasing. So, it shows an increasing trend with a flatter slope, which shows a relatively better efficiency. Table 1: Profitability Ratios of Bank 1 Years ROA ROE TOTAL ASSETS DEPOSITS INVESTMENTS 29

7 For Bank 2 The Profitability ratios of Bank 2 from are shown in Table 2. The overall results of ROE show that its trend is growing in a slow manner. The ROA fluctuation in these years is both upward and downward but ultimately has an upward trend after privatization. The results of the total assets show that they are moderate in nature as it was decreasing before privatization years and then increased after privatization years. The deposits have a decreasing trend with a flatter slope in post-privatization, there is a rapid increase and has positive values which show a relatively better efficiency. The result of investment also shows that it is increasing. So, it shows an increasing trend with a flatter slope, which shows a relatively better efficiency. Table 2: Profitability Ratios of Bank 2 Years ROA ROE TOTAL ASSETS DEPOSITS INVESTMENTS

8 Results and Discussion of Paired Sample t-tests For Bank 1 Paired sample statistics of Bank 1 are shown in Table 3. There is 20 years data of Bank 1 from , in which pre-privatization is era is , and post-privatization is The total number of years is twenty, and the mean, standard deviation and the standard error mean of the Bank 1 are given. The profitability ratios of the mean, standard deviation and the standard error mean of the preprivatization of the bank is lesser as compared to the post-privatization of the bank, which means that after privatization, it has become more efficient as compared to that of before privatization, according to the given sampling. This shows that investment after privatization is higher than before; privatization is fruitful if we compare investment ratios. Pair 1 Pair 2 Pair 3 Pair 4 Pair 5 Table 3: Paired Sample Statistics of Bank 1 Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean (ROA) b (ROA) a (ROE) b (ROE)a (TA) b (TA) a (Deposits) b (Deposits) a (Investments) b (Investments) a

9 Paired sample t-test of Bank 1 is shown in Table 4. The total number of years is twenty. The ROA of the pre and post-privatization is significant that is.003, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The ROE of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.044, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The total asset of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.000, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The deposit of the pre and postprivatization is significant, that is.000, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The investment of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.004, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The mean difference, overall, of pre-privatization is not better as compared to post-privatization, which means that the post-privatization period is more efficient as compared to preprivatization according to the given sampling. Table 4: Paired Sample t-test of Bank 1 Paired Differences Mean 95% Confidence Interval of the Sig. (2- Std. Std. Error t df Difference tailed) Deviation Mean Lower Upper Pair 1 (ROA) b (ROA) a Pair 2 (ROE) b (ROE) a Pair 3 (TA) b (TA) a Pair 4 (Deposits) b (Deposits) a Pair 5 (Investments) b (Investments) a For Bank 2 Paired sample statistics of Bank 2 are shown in Table 5. In the table, there is 12 years data of Bank 2 from , in which pre-privatization era is and post-privatization era is The total number of years is 12 and the mean, standard deviation and the standard error mean of the Bank 2 is given. The profitability ratios of the mean, standard deviation and the standard error mean of the preprivatization of the bank is less as compared to post-privatization of the bank, which means that after the privatization, the performance of the bank is more efficient as compared to that of before privatization, according to the given sampling. It shows that investment after privatization is higher than before, which means that privatization is fruitful if we compare investment ratios. Pair 1 Table 5: Paired Sample Statistics of Bank 2 Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean (ROA) b (ROA) a

10 Pair 2 Pair 3 Pair 4 Pair 5 (ROE) b (ROE) a (TA) b (TA) a (Deposits) b (Deposits) a (Investments) b (Investments) a Paired sample t-test of Bank 2 is shown in Table 6. The total number of years is 12. The ROA of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.011, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The ROE of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.035, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The total asset of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.000, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The deposit of the pre and postprivatization is significant, that is.000, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The investment of the pre and post-privatization is significant, that is.001, which supports Ho hypothesis because p<0.05 is acceptable. The mean difference of the overall is pre-privatization is not better as compared to post-privatization, which means that the post-privatization period is more efficient as compared to pre-privatization period, according to the given sampling. Table 6: Paired Sample t-test of Bank 2 Paired Differences Mean 95% Confidence Interval of the Sig. (2- Std. Std. Error t df Difference tailed) Deviation Mean Lower Upper Pair 1 (ROA) b (ROA) a Pair 2 (ROE) b (ROE) a Pair 3 (TA) b (TA) a Pair 4 (Deposits) b (Deposits) a Pair 5 (Investments) b (Investments) a Conclusion In the history of Pakistan, only a total of four banks (HBL, UBL, MCB, and ABL) have been privatized; and a lot of work has already been done to explore the impact of privatization considering profitability of these banks; but the current work was based on data of 5-10 years before and 7-17 years after privatization. Also, to the best of the author s knowledge, the data considered was up to 2010 for all of these banks. No one has used the data of the recent years (i.e. last 4-5 years) to investigate the impact of 33

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