Productivity growth in Indian banking: Who did the gains accrue to?

Rajeswari Sengupta and Harsh Vardhan ()
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Harsh Vardhan: S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: In this paper we analyse the beneficiaries of productivity gains in the Indian banking sector during the period from 1992 to 2019. We document the relative efficiency of different groups of banks by ownership. We find that the Indian banking sector, particularly the public sector banks experienced steady productivity growth from the mid 1990s till about 2010. We conduct a detailed descriptive analysis to examine the various stakeholders that the productivity gains have accrued to, over the years and across bank groups. We conclude that most of the gains may have accrued to the shareholders which for the public sector banks would mean the government. These gains presumably helped reduce the burden on the government of capitalising the public sector banks, especially during the 1997-2002 period of sharp rise in non performing assets.

Keywords: Banking sector; Bank productivity; Beneficiaries; Efficiency gains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 D61 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2020-06
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