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 contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. 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 …