This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

model, the state-wide total factor productivity growth (TFPG) indices of US commercial banks for each state for the 1971 …-1995 period. We observe that the productivity growth of commercial banks in state i depends strongly, positively, and … contemporaneously on the productivity growth of commercial banks located in state i's contiguous states. Further, regulatory space …

activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they … subsequently merged with other banks. German banks were still able to increase their productivity through consolidation. …

This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks' financial strength ratings (bank rating) and … they assume and thereby have a low probability of experiencing financial distress. Bank ratings, a measure of a bank …'s intrinsic safety and soundness, should therefore be able to capture the bank's ability to manage financial distress while …

natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by …We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European … the resulting increase in factor misallocation accounts for 20% of the decline in productivity in Portugal in 2012. …

bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the … Europe may at least partly stem from bank forbearance. The increasing survival of zombie firms congests markets and … constrains the growth of more productive firms, to the detriment of aggregate productivity growth. Our results suggest that …