, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of …)). The contradiction of high profitability and low efficiency causes great confusion in understanding banking in China. Our … paper aims to reveal the real sources of the high profitability of the big Chinese banks. We compare their profitability …

problems? [Yes]; 3) do bank influenced firms have higher profitability? [No]. Coupled with results about the control …