investigates the impact of competition on efficiency in Chinese banking while controlling for comprehensive determinants of bank …

We test the bank lending channel of monetary policy in Africa and examine the role of bank cost efficiency in this … existence of the bank lending channel in Africa: thus, bank credit responds to changes in monetary policy rate. Again, we find … banks are less responsive to monetary policy shocks. The evidence suggests that bank cost efficiency weakens the bank …

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 …