This paper studies the role of non-performing loans in the regulatory measures of the Chinese commercial banking system. A threshold panel regression model has been applied to the data of 87 commercial banks in China from 2006 to 2012. The empirical results suggest that a higher non-performing...

This paper examines the impact of shareholding concentration and the class of shareholders on firm investment. We apply the Euler equation approach to the empirical modeling of investment for a panel dataset of 786 Chinese listed companies during 1998–2004. We find that a significant positive...