)). The contradiction of high profitability and low efficiency causes great confusion in understanding banking in China. Our …, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of …. However, the low efficiency in Chinese banks is still persistent, as evident in many empirical studies (e.g. Feyzioğlu, (2009 …

Big Fours is the key to reduce the volatility of cost efficiency in the banking operations in China and high deposits …This paper explores the cost and profit efficiencies of banks in China from 1996 to 2005 and their relation to the …. The profit efficiency of banks has been improved after year 2000 while the cost efficiency of them decayed during the same …