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. … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank …

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. … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank …

use. We use a dataset of 564 bank loans on French firms, which contains the full information on type and value of …

use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank’s portfolio, based on data for 32 … categories of loans. It provides a benchmark for the optimality of the bank’s portfolio. The authors apply this method on an …

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 …

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …

bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …