This paper presents evidence on the impact of managers on cost efficiency in banking. Stochastic frontier analysis is …. University education enhances efficiency if the manager is running a large bank. Managing director changes are systematically … followed by efficiency changes. Manager retirement typically causes an efficiency improvement, whereas other manager changes …

dominant ‘big four’ state-owned banks. This paper seeks to help predict the effects of this change by analysing the efficiency … efficiency. We present corroborating robustness checks and offer several credible mechanisms through which minority foreign … owners can increase Chinese bank efficiency. These findings suggest that minority foreign ownership of the big four is likely …

Recent cross-country comparisons of bank efficiency have been based on pooled estimates of banks across countries and … efficiency of banks in each country that operate both within and outside their own environments. The results indicate that … technical efficiency is a significant deterrence to foreign competition. …