Fungáčová, Zuzana; Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 121-134
This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …