China employs a unique foreign bank entry model. Instead of allowing full foreign control of domestic banks, foreign … investors are expected to commit to bank corporate governance improvement and new technology support. In this context, the paper … examines the effect of foreign strategic investors on Chinese bank performance. Based on a unique data set of bank ownership …

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 …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … to benefit more from being diversified. This analysis provides important strategic and policy implications for bank … managers and regulators in Russia as well as in other emerging economies. …

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 … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …

profitability, asset diversification and liquidity risk, but negatively influenced by bank market power. Capital ratios typically co …