The success of economic reforms in China is often attributed to favourable starting conditions. Yet structural … and insufficient reform efforts are shown to have worked against enterprise efficiency and economic growth in China …

-owned enterprises (SOEs), opening up the gate to China's secondary privatization. The expectation of privatization quickly boosted SOE …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China's banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China's banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through … fundamentals of the banks may be still weak. -- data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; efficiency ; banking ; China …

China became serious about disposing of the nonperforming loans in its banking sector in response to the Asian … financial crisis of 1997-98. In 2003, the big four state-owned banks (the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, China … Construction Bank, Bank of China, and Agricultural Bank of China), as well as the China Development Bank, began the process of …