IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mes/emfitr/v49y2013i2p4-18.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Foreign Bank Entry and Bank Corporate Governance in China

Author

Listed:
  • Iftekhar Hasan
  • Ru Xie

Abstract

China employs a unique foreign bank entry model. Instead of allowing full foreign control of domestic banks, foreign investors are only permitted to be involved in the local banks as minority shareholders. At the same time, foreign strategic investors are expected to commit to bank corporate governance improvement and new technology support. In this context, this paper examines the effect of foreign strategic investors on Chinese bank performance. Based on a unique data set of bank ownership, performance, corporate governance, and stock returns from 1997 to 2010, our regression and event study analysis results suggest that active involvement of foreign strategic investors in bank management has improved the corporate governance model of Chinese banks from a control-based model to a market-oriented model, and accordingly has promoted bank performance.

Suggested Citation

  • Iftekhar Hasan & Ru Xie, 2013. "Foreign Bank Entry and Bank Corporate Governance in China," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(2), pages 4-18, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:49:y:2013:i:2:p:4-18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=Q7X324J501428588
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mutarindwa, Samuel & Schäfer, Dorothea & Stephan, Andreas, 2020. "Central banks' supervisory guidance on corporate governance and bank stability: Evidence from African countries," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).
    2. Yuan, Lin & Zhong, Yang & Lu, Zhou, 2022. "Foreign strategic investors and bank credit risk in China: Disclosure, finance or management effects?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    3. Rubén Chavarín, 2020. "Risk governance, banks affiliated to business groups, and foreign ownership," Risk Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 22(1), pages 1-37, March.
    4. Hidaya Othmani, 2022. "Foreign institutional ownership and bank performance: Evidence from Tunisia," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 34(1), pages 42-53, March.
    5. Ni, Yensen & Huang, Paoyu & Chen, Yuhsin, 2019. "Board structure, considerable capital, and stock price overreaction informativeness in terms of technical indicators," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 514-528.
    6. Maoyong Cheng & Hong Zhao & Mingming Zhou, 2016. "The effects of foreign strategic investors on business models in China’s commercial banks: does ownership structure matter?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(58), pages 5676-5698, December.
    7. Dia, Enzo & Jiang, Lunan & Menna, Lorenzo & Zhang, Lin, 2023. "Interest margins, lending rates and bank productivity among Chinese provinces," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 104-127.
    8. Wu, Meng-Wen & Shen, Chung-Hua & Lu, Chin-Hwa, 2015. "Do more foreign strategic investors and more directors improve the earnings smoothing? The case of China," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 3-16.
    9. Dong, Yizhe & Girardone, Claudia & Kuo, Jing-Ming, 2017. "Governance, efficiency and risk taking in Chinese banking," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 211-229.
    10. Konara, Palitha & Tan, Yong & Johnes, Jill, 2019. "FDI and heterogeneity in bank efficiency: Evidence from emerging markets," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 100-113.
    11. Yensen Ni & Yulu Liao & Paoyu Huang, 2017. "Foreign Institutional Investors, Shareholding Change, and Corporate Governance," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(4), pages 764-775, April.
    12. Cheng, Maoyong & Geng, Hongyan & Zhang, Junrui, 2016. "Chinese commercial banks: Benefits from foreign strategic investors?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 40(PA), pages 147-172.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:49:y:2013:i:2:p:4-18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/MREE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.