Leverage, Performance, Size and Reserve Management: Empirical Evidences in Malaysian Islamic Banks

This study examines the relationship between leverage ratio, bank's performance, size and profit equalisation reserve. Using GMM estimators, both difference and system, we find significant relationship between current leverage ratio and previous leverage ratio and profit equalization reserve. Overall, our results are consistent with the several past literatures with addition of determining impact of profit equalization reserve on leverage ratios of Islamic banks in Malaysia.