This research analyses the efficiency of China’s banks using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). The Chinese government began its reforms of the banking industry reform since 1978. Our data set contains twelve banks in China during the period of 1996 to 2003. All nominal variables are transformed into real variables in the 2003 prices. There are twelve banks including four state-owned speciali...

The Chinese banking sector has gone through a consistent process of the reform which includes liberalization of the business to foreign banks, privatization and listing bank shares, allowing diversifications into intermediary business beyond the traditional deposit and loan activities. In the mean time, the changing structures of the banking sector and the favourable economic condition in the r...

The article proposes a model of credit risk assessment on the basis of factor analysis of retail clients / borrowers in order to ensure predictive control of the level of risk posed by potential clients in commercial banks engaged in consumer lending. The aim of the study is to determine the level of risk represented by different groups (classes) of retail clients (borrowers) in order to reduce...

Lying at the elementary stage of relevant research, China is still lacking in modern performance audit methods fit for commercial banks. This paper aims at applying data enveloping analysis in the linear programming theory as well as benchmarking management to commercial banks to effectively improve the efficiency and quality of their performance audit. In addition, the application of this meth...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the nature of bond underwriting syndicates organized by commercial banks. I use a unique data set from Japan during a prewar period when banks were permitted to underwrite corporate bonds. The paper shows that risk aversion led to a greater tendency for investment houses to form a syndicate than commercial banks. The evidence is consistent wit...

The relaxation of the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA), the Act which separates commercial and investment banking, is currently under debate. Central to this debate is the potential risk reduction of commercial banks due to diversification. This paper, through a thorough and complete examination of the diversification potential, establishes an upper bound of diversification benefits. The results do sup...

T he U.S. banking system has consolidated in recent years, and the shares of total banking system assets and deposits held by the very largest banking organizations have increased markedly. The number of commercial banks reached its post-World War II peak of 14,483 banks in 1984. By year-end 2012, the number of commercial banks had declined to 6,096. In 2001, the five largest commercial banks h...

This paper tries to analyze Chinese three types of bank’s efficiency changes and differences, after the financial crisis, through the integrated use of DEA and super efficiency DEA method. The results show that: the efficiency of Chinese commercial Banks in general is on the rise, the comprehensive technical efficiency growth stems mainly from scale efficiency improvement, pure technical effici...

With the economic intensification of a country is on accelerating mode, role of banking industry is also important in this growth. In a hyper-competitive market all commercial banks in Bangladesh are faced with challenges of retaining the existing and attracting new customers. The aim of the research is to take the opinions of different peoples in Rajshahi city, Bangladesh about the service qua...