This work examines the impact of bank efficiency on the bank lending channel in China. Using a sample of 175 Chinese … bank's efficiency. While bank efficiency does not exert an impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission … expansion of shadow banking activities has been associated with a positive impact of bank efficiency on monetary policy …

. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects terms of trade in … production interdependence magnifies the efficiency-improvement effect while dampening the terms-of-trade effect. As a …

We test the bank lending channel of monetary policy in Africa and examine the role of bank cost efficiency in this … relationship. We use the stochastic metafrontier approach to estimate cost efficiency scores of 447 commercial banks in Africa. The … strong evidence to show that higher cost efficiency leads to higher loan growth. The results further show that cost efficient …