in Chinese banking from before China’s admission to the WTO in 2001 to more recent regulatory reform and developments in … of reforms taken by the government in preparation for China’s entry to the WTO. The second part of the book discusses … important issues, including bank efficiency, capital structure, competition and financial stability, and risk taking behaviour …

China has accelerated and deepened bank reform since it joined the WTO in 2001. Employing a stochastic distance … governance changes on bank efficiency in China for the period 1995-2005. Our results show that bank efficiency has been improved … foreign competition is beneficial to China's on-going bank reform, and going-public is just a means to allow effective foreign …

the stock exchanges. This paper will study whether this reform has really improved bank efficiency. Adopting the DEA (data … envelopment analysis) approach, this paper examines whether IPO (initial public offering) is effective in enhancing bank … performance. Using data of 14 listed banks during 1999-07, the results show that on average, bank efficiency increased by almost …