This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … can improve bank efficiency. …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. … efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002-2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM …

syndicated loans to corporate borrowers in China. In line with theoretical literature, ownership concentration of the borrowing … foreign banks relative to local banks in China. Moreover, it appears that increased financial leverage discourages foreign … bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …

This paper accounts for China’s economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing … of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China’s aggregate income … can generate a trajectory that accords well with the different stages of development in China. …

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …

bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies. …This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …

with world .financial markets, and market efficiency – from 1995 to present, putting emphasis on how these evolved over …

a relatively strong and increasingly efficient banking system. Banks with higher foreign bank ownership involvement were …

institutional framework. We analyze the interaction between aggregate efficiency, corruption, and other dimensions of governance for … that it may be positively associated with efficiency in countries where institutions are ineffective. We thus find evidence …