reduction in their credit capacity. The drop in credit supply affects both firms directly exposed to import-competition from …, investment, and output. This financial spillover between losers and winners from trade holds back the reallocation of factors of …

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 … using a non-parametric approach to analyse the efficiency changes of 15 large commercial banks during 1998-2005. We find …

The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of geographical location in the banking sector efficiency of the … role in the efficiency of the banking sector in the Sino-ASEAN region. The significant country's coefficients suggest that …. Overall, the results suggest that Chinese banks outperform banks from the ASEAN countries in terms of efficiency. This study …

dominant 'big four' state-owned banks. This paper seeks to help predict the effects of this change by analysing the efficiency … efficiency. We present corroborating robustness checks and offer several credible mechanisms through which minority foreign … owners can increase Chinese bank efficiency. These findings suggest that minority foreign ownership of the big four is likely …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002-2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM … competition over the period, even as cost efficiency improves. In a departure from the empirical literature showing that …

between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004?2009, taking advantage of the profound … the capital ratio on banks' cost efficiency. We find that such an increase has a positive effect on cost efficiency, the … can improve bank efficiency. …

. However, the low efficiency in Chinese banks is still persistent, as evident in many empirical studies (e.g. Feyzioğlu, (2009 …)). The contradiction of high profitability and low efficiency causes great confusion in understanding banking in China. Our …

-product for the estimation of banks' total factor efficiency (TFE) as well as TFE of each production factor. A unique data sample … of 171 Chinese commercial banks, which is the largest data sample concerning with Chinese banking efficiency issues until … efficiency, and finds that a model with risk-weighted assets as undesirable outputs can better capture the impact of shadow …

. The profit efficiency of banks has been improved after year 2000 while the cost efficiency of them decayed during the same … deposits-to-assets ratio tend to have low volatility of the cost efficiency. The high deposits-to-assets ratio also helps … reduce the volatility of the profit efficiency. Consequently, according to the empirical results, the privatization of the …