Reconciling the Chinese Financial Development with its Economic Growth: A Discursive Essay

Jean-Claude Maswana

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: China‘s strong economic performance and its financial development outcomes are extremely difficult to reconcile with the dominant verdict that its financial system is seriously inefficient. Using an evolutionary perspective as a metaphor, this essay offered suggestions that adaptive efficiency criteria may help solve the apparent puzzle. An adaptive efficiency criterion offers conceptual as well as methodological approaches to resolving this puzzle and contradiction. The essay‘s discussions reveal that much of what critics cite as intermediation inefficiencies –non performing loans, directed credit allocation– are, in fact, a dissipative energy generating required spillovers fuelling the entire system. From this perspective, the essay argues that the relevant evaluation criterion for the Chinese financial system would be ―adaptive efficiency, instead of the conventional allocative one. This arises since China is an emerging economic system characterized primarily by state-owned financial institutions and whose goals are developmental.

Keywords: Financial Development; China; Adaptive Efficiency; Co-evolutionary Perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 P20 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-dev, nep-fdg and nep-tra
Date: 2005-03, Revised 2007-12

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