Tests of Financial Intermediation and Banking Reform in China
dc.contributor.author | Park, Albert | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Sehrt, Kaja | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-01T16:24:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-08-01T16:24:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-03-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:1999-270 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/39654 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | We develop tests of financial intermediation by national banking systems that exploit regional financial and economic data. Derived from a model of bank profit maximization, the tests are based on the expectation that in efficient systems, financial intermediation should not be overly influenced by policy variables; should be greater where projects are more profitable and require greater financing - typically in faster growing, richer, industrial areas; and should direct funds to the best projects regardless of where deposits originate. We apply these tests to Chinese provincial data from 1991-97 for all state banks, the Agricultural Bank of China, rural credit cooperatives, and other financial institutions. China implemented a series of widely publicized financial reforms in the mid-1990s designed to improve bank performance. However, descriptive and estimation results suggest that the importance of state bank policy lending (to support SOEs and finance agricultural procurement) has increased, not fallen, during the recent period, and lending does not respond to economic fundamentals. Only the group of smaller, less-regulated financial institutions appear commercially oriented. Despite reforms, significant barriers to efficient inter-regional financial intermediation remain. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 270 | en_US |
dc.title | Tests of Financial Intermediation and Banking Reform in China | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39654/3/wp270.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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