This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a …-Stock banks was markedly higher. -- Bank Efficiency ; Productivity ; Malmquist index ; Bootstrapping … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals …

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 paper investigates the relationship between local bank competition and firm productivity in China using a large … sample of industrial firms. We find strong evidence of an "inverted U-shaped" relationship between local bank competition and … firm productivity. Our results also indicate that banking competition reduces neighboring firms’ cost of financing and …