Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in …

approach to examine the overall efficiency of insurance companies in Taiwan and mainland China during 2005-2011. Empirical … efficiency of life insurance companies in Taiwan and mainland China, while GDP growth rate, inflation rate, corruption index, and … climate risk negatively affect their managerial efficiency. …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …

Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in …

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 …