Three empirical essays of efficiency and productivity in Chinese banking industry

This thesis is about measuring and interpreting banking efficiency in China. It consists of three empirical essays that use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in three novel ways to measure inefficiency. The first essay measures cost inefficiency of the 14 nationwide banks over the period 1997-2006. A...

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Main Author: Zhang, Xu
Published: Cardiff University 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585049