An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Digital Finance on the Efficiency of Commercial Banks

Lihua Zuo (), Hongchang Li and Xuanxuan Xia ()
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Lihua Zuo: School of Economics and Management, Taishan University, Tai’an 271000, China
Hongchang Li: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Xuanxuan Xia: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-25

Abstract: Based on the background of the digital transformation of commercial banks, the advantages and benefits of this study are to study the promotion effect of digital finance on the production efficiency of commercial banks from four aspects: technological innovation, financial innovation, deep integration of technology and finance, and industry advantages. This study verifies that digital finance has a positive impact on the total factor productivity of commercial banks. In order to study the impact of the development of digital finance on the efficiency of commercial banks, this paper puts forward two assumptions. Using the “text mining method” and taking the total factor productivity of commercial banks as the explanatory variable and the digital finance index as the core explanatory variable, this paper empirically studies the impact of digital finance on bank efficiency. Through empirical research, it is believed that through the analysis of total factor productivity, digital finance has strongly promoted the improvement of the total factor productivity of commercial banks through the technology spillover effect. The impact of digital finance on banks is therefore heterogeneous.

Keywords: digital finance; commercial banks; total factor productivity; DEA Malmquist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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