Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the … study aims to examine whether the capital injections primarily benefited high-productivity firms or were misallocated to … struggling "zombie" firms. The empirical results suggest that banks, post-injection, increased lending to both high-productivity …

productivity have been available. We develop three novel tests based on permutations of the observations. The first is a test for … even for relatively small samples and their size can generally be controlled upwards. We further add a lower bound showing …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

-Stock banks was markedly higher. -- Bank Efficiency ; Productivity ; Malmquist index ; Bootstrapping …This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals …

average productivity growth of Chinese banks as a whole improved in the run-up to WTO. -- Bank Efficiency ; Productivity …This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence …

activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they … subsequently merged with other banks. German banks were still able to increase their productivity through consolidation. -- Banking …

This paper examines the changes in productivity and its components for Saudi Commercial Banks between 1996 and 2009. We … Productivity (TFP). Results show that Saudi Arabian Banking industry experienced sustained productivity growth driven mainly by …

of the effi ciency of banking intermediation. In this paper we estimate the productivity of individual Spanish banks and … the industry's productivity growth over time using the methodology of Olley and Pakes (1996) and Levinsohn and Petrin … (2003), which controls for simultaneity bias. We then examine the contributions of two sets of factors to productivity …

the effect of labor quality on banks' productivity and the contribution of total factor productivity to bank output growth …. Bank output and labor productivity outpaced considerably the respective GDP growth and labor productivity of the Greek …This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990 …