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Beng Soon Chong
Researcher at Nanyang Technological University
Publications - 20
Citations - 1149
Beng Soon Chong is an academic researcher from Nanyang Technological University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Initial public offering & Monetary policy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1038 citations.
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Islamic banking: Interest-free or interest-based?
Beng Soon Chong,Ming-Hua Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on Malaysia showed that only a negligible portion of Islamic bank financing is strictly profit-and-loss sharing (PLS) based and that Islamic deposits are not interest-free, but are closely pegged to conventional deposits.
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Islamic Banking: Interest-Free or Interest-Based?
Beng Soon Chong,Ming-Hua Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a study on Malaysia showed that only a negligible portion of Islamic bank financing is strictly profit-and-loss sharing (PLS) based and that Islamic deposits are not interest-free, but are closely pegged to conventional deposits.
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Monetary transmission via the administered interest rates channel
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the dynamics of administered interest rate changes in response to changes in the benchmark money market rate in Singapore and found that the administered rates' adjustment speed differs across both financial institutions and financial products.
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The wealth effect of forced bank mergers and cronyism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of forced bank mergers on the shareholders' wealth of Malaysian banks and found that the forced merger scheme destroys economic value in aggregate and the acquiring banks tend to gain at the expense of the target banks.
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Interest rate deregulation: Monetary policy efficacy and rate rigidity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of interest rate regulation and subsequent deregulation on the efficacy of monetary policy and rigidity of retail bank deposit rates in Hong Kong using an error-correction model.