Bank ownership and efficiency in China: what lies ahead in the world's largest nation?

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China is reforming its banking system, partially privatizing and permitting minority foreign ownership of three of the dominant 'big four' state-owned banks. This paper seeks to help predict the effects of this change by analysing the efficiency of virtually all Chinese banks in the years 1994-2003. Our findings suggest the big four banks are by far the least efficient and foreign banks the most efficient while minority foreign ownership is associated with significantly improved efficiency. We present corroborating robustness checks and offer several credible mechanisms through which minority foreign owners can increase Chinese bank efficiency. These findings suggest that minority foreign ownership of the big four is likely to significantly improve performance.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-952-462-381-0
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers ; No. 16/2007

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages ; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation ; Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Subject: China ; foreign banks ; efficiency ; foreign ownership

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Berger, Allen N. ; Hasan, Iftekhar ; Zhou, Mingming
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Bank of Finland
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/212074
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET