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Banking In China: Are New Tigers Supplanting the Mammoths?

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Giovanni Ferri (University of Bari, Italy, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research)

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"New Tigers" (including city commercial banks) outperform state-owned commercial banks burdened with non-performing loans from unprofitable state-owned enterprises. We study whether this is due solely to superior corporate governance (multiple shareholders versus total government ownership) or also to the favorable environment (the New Tigers target affluent China, while state-owned commercial banks operate nationwide). Using a field survey on 20 city commercial banks from three provinces at different levels of economic development, we find better performance at those in the East and worse performance at those controlled by state-owned enterprises. Geography and policy do matter, and reform of state-owned commercial banks is necessary to bring better banking to China.

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Paper provided by Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research in its series Working Papers with number 052008.

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Keywords: China; State Ownership of Banks; Corporate Governance; Geography and Performance;

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G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages
G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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