 Bank performance in China: A Perspective from Bank efficiency, risk-taking and market competitionJianchun Fang, Chi Keung Lau, Zhou Lu, Yong Tan and Hua Zhang Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2019, vol. 56, issue C, 290-309 Abstract: The current paper contributes to the empirical literature on bank profitability by testing the joint-impact of different types of risk, competition in different banking markets and different types of efficiency on bank profitability using a sample of Chinese commercial banks over the period 2003–2017. In particular, we fill in the gap of the empirical studies by examining the impact of efficiency on profitability when banks undertake different levels of risk-taking behaviour and face different degrees of competition. The results show that competition in the Chinese banking markets (deposit market, loan market and non-interest income market) is stronger over the period 2003–2005 and also 2014–2017. In addition, it is found that bank size, cost efficiency, profit efficiency and inflation are significantly related to bank profitability. Finally, we find that the positive impact of cost efficiency on profitability is stronger when banks undertake higher levels of risk and face more competition. Keywords: Interest rate liberalization; Bank competition; Bank efficiency; Bank profitability; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:56:y:2019:i:c:p:290-309 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2019.06.011 Access Statistics for this article Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is currently edited by K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee More articles in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from Elsevier |
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