Does Financial Regulation Enhance or Impede the Efficiency of China's Listed Commercial Banks? A Dynamic Perspective

Tung-Hao Lee and Shu-Hwa Chih

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2013, vol. 49, issue S4, 132-149

Abstract: Unlike studies investigating only the characteristics of bank regulation that affect the concurrent static efficiency of banks, this paper uses a dynamic, slacks-based measure to study the persistent and intertemporal effects on the dynamic efficiency of banks in the long run. The authors find the following main results. First, the cost-to-income ratio has a significant negative effect on bank efficiency. Second, banks having higher loan-to-deposit and current ratios are more efficient than those with lower ratios. Third, the capital adequacy, provision coverage, and loan-loss provision ratios do not significantly affect bank efficiency.

Keywords: China listed commercial banks; data envelopment analysis; financial regulation; static and dynamic efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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