Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and …

This paper combines the static effect of ownership and the dynamic effect of privatization on bank performance in China … performance with respect to revenue inflow and efficiency gains in the short- or long-run (initial public offerings). The positive … paper innovatively estimates interest income efficiency and non-interest income efficiency at the same time. The results …

fundamentals of the banks may be still weak. -- data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; efficiency ; banking ; China …Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …

governance and efficiency. Within one year from October 2005, three of the four biggest state-owned banks (SOBs) were listed on … the stock exchanges. This paper will study whether this reform has really improved bank efficiency. Adopting the DEA (data … performance. Using data of 14 listed banks during 1999-07, the results show that on average, bank efficiency increased by almost …

Employing the one-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach, this paper examines bank efficiency in China …. Bank efficiency has improved over the data period 1995-2008. The estimated average cost and profit efficiencies are 74% and … negative effect on profit efficiency in the long-term while initial public offerings (IPOs) improve bank profitability in the …

Employing the one-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach, this paper examines bank efficiency in China …. Bank efficiency has improved over the data period 1995-2008. The estimated average cost and profit efficiencies are 74% and … negative effect on profit efficiency in the long-term while initial public offerings (IPOs) improve bank profitability in the …

governance changes on bank efficiency in China for the period 1995-2005. Our results show that bank efficiency has been improved …China has accelerated and deepened bank reform since it joined the WTO in 2001. Employing a stochastic distance … function, this paper investigates the technical efficiency of banks and examines the static, selection and dynamic effects of …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and …

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in … first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents … a comprehensive review on alternative methodologies for analyzing firm efficiency …