In spite of being the second largest recipient of FDI in the world, China shows limited evidence of considerable FDI … whether poor financial market development might be responsible for the relatively low benefits of FDI on growth in China. We …

state-run banks, led by the Bank of China (BOC), represented China's primary financial interface with the outside world …One of the puzzling features of China's post-1978 economic reforms is how quickly its enterprises adapted to the new … replacement with commercial incentives proved costly in terms of professional standards. A homogenisation of bank management also …

We provide a comprehensive review of the development and activities of the People's Bank of China over the half century …. First, the PBC has evolved from the mixture of a central bank and a commercial bank to the central bank of China, with the …

In the context of developing FinTech innovation, a commercial bank's use of FinTech innovation can improve its risk … management capability, thereby reducing its risk-taking. This paper explores the impact and mechanism of a bank's FinTech … innovation on its risk-taking using panel data of 65 commercial banks between 2008 and 2020. We innovatively construct a bank …

a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows … form of higher loan to GDP ratio leads to lower economic growth rate. We find that discrimination in bank lending, housing …

Since the open-up policy at the end of the 1970s, China - the largest single market in Asia - received growing … attention from foreign investors and banks. However, the fragile domestic market and undeveloped financial system in China did … a result, it took several years for most foreign banks to gain a foothold in mainland China. This article demonstrates …

, resulting in extensive bank networks. This historical banking system played a crucial role in the postwar big-push policy which … nationalized, continued to operate and expand new branches around the colonial bank networks in postwar Taiwan. We show that … townships withmore nearby prewar bank branches tended to grow faster during the period of postwar rapid industrialization. We …