The Cost Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Hong Kong

Jim Wong, Tom Fong (), Eric Tak-Chuen Wong and Ka-Fai Choi

Chapter 1 in The Banking Sector in Hong Kong, 2008, pp 3-16 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In recent years, the cost efficiency of banks, along with scale and scope economies, has attracted much attention from both academics and policy makers. Given their special role in channelling funds from savers to investors, poor cost efficiency of banks would restrain the creation of credit, thus jeopardizing the level of economic performance. In addition, inefficiency would affect banks’ earnings, hampering their ability to withstand shocks. The cost efficiency of the US and European banking industries has been examined intensively.1 As for the banking sector in Hong Kong, the issue has only recently been studied by Kwan (2002, 2006) and Drake et al. (2006a, 2006b).

Keywords: Commercial Bank; Banking Sector; Cost Efficiency; Large Bank; Small Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230227378_1

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