Opening the Black Box on bank efficiency in China: does economic freedom matter?

The paper provides, for the first time, empirical evidence on the impact of economic freedom on bank efficiency in a developing economy. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis method to compute the efficiency of the Chinese banking sector during 2000-2008. The empirical findings indicate that the i...

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Main Authors: Sufian, Fadzlan, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2011
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