This paper tests the impact of risk and competition on efficiency in the Chinese banking industry over the period 2003 …. Competition is measured by the Lerner index. The results are cross-checked using an alternative econometric technique as well as … an alternative competition indicator. The findings show that the technical and pure technical efficiencies of Chinese …

Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). In the second step we regress bank spreads on efficiency scores and market structure … bank (mutual, cooperative, and commercial banks) and type of business relationships established are controlled for …

efficiencies and there is a significant and positive impact of credit risk on bank competition. The results provide policy … risk, competition and efficiency in the Chinese banking industry under a three-stage least square estimator. The paper is … efficiencies of Chinese commercial banks. In addition, it is found that higher levels of competition lead to lower cost and revenue …

multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … specific cost parameters to measure competition with Lerner indices. Large, national universal banks and the smallest, most … specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition. In turn, medium sized universal banks are both efficient and exhibit …

In a recent paper, Karadima and Louri use frontier-based measures of market power and bank competition in an …