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dc.contributor.authorLöchel, Horsten
dc.contributor.authorLi, Helena Xiangen
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-08-
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-10T10:26:32Z-
dc.date.available2012-02-10T10:26:32Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/55214-
dc.description.abstractThe big Chinese state-owned banks came as winners out of the global financial crisis. According to the Banker ranking, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of global banking profits in 2010. The Chinese banking sector, which was deemed as wholly insolvent ten years ago, was reborn like a phoenix from the fire of the Asian financial crisis and the current financial crisis. The banking reform in the last decade with large-scale capital injection, assets carve-outs, restructuring and public listing celebrated great success. However, the low efficiency in Chinese banks is still persistent, as evident in many empirical studies (e.g. Feyzioglu, (2009)). The contradiction of high profitability and low efficiency causes great confusion in understanding banking in China. Our paper aims to reveal the real sources of the high profitability of the big Chinese banks. We compare their profitability pattern with peer banks from Asia, Europe and North America. We first test the hypothesis that the average asset return of the big five Chinese banks will fall below the international comparative level if the current high net interest margin given by the managed interest system in China falls to the international peer average level. Surprisingly, the hypothesis has to be rejected. Instead, our results show that the profitability of Chinese banks stays at international comparative level, despite the high inefficiency in Chinese banks. We therefore test a second hypothesis stating that the profitability of Chinese banks will fallbelow their international peers if staff costs increase by 30 percent in average to reach the international level, with the joint condition of margin decrease. This hypothesis can be proved, which means that the big five Chinese banks compensate its inefficiency by a combination of a non-competitive high interest margin and unsustainable lower labor cost. The above results of course raise the question how the big Chinese banks can stay competitive if China continues to liberalize its interest rate system and labor cost increases. In our concluding remarks, we discuss the possibility that Chinese banks change their business model towards universal banking with additional non-interest income to compensate the drop in interest margin.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFrankfurt School of Finance & Management |cFrankfurt a. M.en
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aFrankfurt School - Working Paper Series |x177en
dc.subject.jelG01en
dc.subject.jelG20en
dc.subject.jelG21en
dc.subject.jelG28en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordChinaen
dc.subject.keywordbanksen
dc.subject.keywordfinanceen
dc.subject.keywordbanking business modelen
dc.subject.keyworduniversal bankingen
dc.subject.stwBanken
dc.subject.stwÖffentliche Banken
dc.subject.stwRentabilitäten
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftliche Effizienzen
dc.subject.stwZinsspannenrechnungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitskostenen
dc.subject.stwUniversalbanken
dc.subject.stwGeschäftsmodellen
dc.subject.stwChinaen
dc.titleUnderstanding the high profitability of Chinese banks-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn684912104en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:fsfmwp:177en

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