This paper examines how government ownership and government involvement in a country's banking system affect bank performance from 1989 through 2004. Our study uncovers an interesting pattern of changing performance differences between state-owned and privately-owned banks around the Asian...

This paper examines how government ownership and government involvement in a country's banking system affect bank performance from 1989 through 2004. Our study uncovers an interesting pattern of changing performance difference between state-owned and privately-owned banks around the Asian...

This paper employs cash flow and accounting based measures to examine performance differences between privately-owned and state-owned banks in sixteen Far East countries from 1989 through 2004, a period including the 1997 Asian financial crisis. We find that state-owned banks operated less...