Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212641 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 28/2008
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The pace of transition in China over the last two decades has led to great variation across the country in terms of institutional and financial development. In this paper, using a panel of Chinese provinces during the period 1993-2006, we empirically investigate the determinants of the efficiency of the banking sector from an institutional perspective. The most important institutional developments in China are the emergence and gradual dominance of the market economy, financial deepening, the growth of a private sector, the establishment of secure property rights, and rule of law. We find that institutional variables play an important role in affecting banking efficiencies, and that banks tend to operate more efficiently in those regions with a greater private sector presence and more property rights awareness, while the role of financial deepening and rule of law is less straightforward.
Subjects: 
Institutional development
Bank efficiency
Chinese banks
JEL: 
G21
O43
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-462-947-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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