From the start of China's "corporatization without privatization" process in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime apparently shareholder-empowering and determined by enabling legal norms has been altered by mandatory governance mechanisms imposed by a state administrative...

From the start of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) "corporatization" project in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime subject to increasingly enabling legal norms has been determined by mandatory regulations imposed by the PRC securities regulator, the China Securities...

The aim of this paper is to review China's institutional reforms and consequent development of Chinese corporate governance system and financial system. As part of the wider economic reform initiated since the late 1970s, the Chinese government has adopted various measures aimed at reforming...

Board governance is an important aspect of internal bank governance. We conduct an empirical study on 100 banks in China for the period from 2004 to 2017 using a time-varying growth bank shareholder network to investigate the relationship and mechanism between bank shareholder network and board...

Using hand-collected data of bank loans and CEO turnovers in China, we investigate whether common ownership compromises creditors’ governance role when borrowers underperform. Unlike prior literature on the overall lack of bank monitoring on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, we argue...

In this paper, we leverage the bank governance reform in China as a laboratory to explore the impact of the banking governance system on lending activities. Specifically, a well-functioning governance system does not improve the bank’s selection abilities due to the regulation constraints....

"New Tigers" (including city commercial banks) outperform state-owned commercial banks burdened with non-performing loans from unprofitable state-owned enterprises. We study whether this is due solely to superior corporate governance (multiple shareholders versus total government ownership) or...

Against the background of the reform wave of banking regulation and supervision over the world, we review the development path of banking regulation and supervision in China to understand how and in which direction the regulatory and supervisory framework in China evolved and how regulation and...

This paper presents the main challenges currently facing China's financial supervisory authority and the supervisory response to these challenges, focusing on the shadow banking system and Digital Finance. The author seeks to find out what reforms were introduced and what tools were applied in...

Using a sample of 50 largest Chinese banks during the period of 2003-2010, we explore a comprehensive set of board characteristics (size, composition and functioning of the board) and analyze their impacts on bank performance and bank asset quality in China. We find that the number of board...