China¡¯s Banking System, Market Structure, and Competitive Conditions

Omar Masood () and Bruno S. Sergi ()
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Omar Masood: Business School, University of East London, Docklands Campus, University Way, London E16 2RD, UK
Bruno S. Sergi: Business School, University of Messina, Messina 98122, Italy

Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2011, vol. 6, issue 1, 22-35

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical assessment of the market structure and the competitive conditions of the Chinese banking sector. We applied the Panzar-Rosse H-statistic on the data collected from a panel including 16 most significant Chinese banks for the period 2004¨C2007. Equilibrium tests and the competitive conditions tests were applied on the data. From the pooled regression in the whole period, we found that the banking sector in China for 2004¨C2007 was monopolistically competitive. We also show that the Chinese banks were not able to achieve high records of profitability in monopolistically competitive markets.

Keywords: Panzar-Rosse H-statistic; regression; equilibrium tests; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 D43 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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