Effects of credit market freedom on the convergence of Chinese banks' profits

• Main Authors: Yap, Woon Kan, Law, Siong Hook, Niaz Ahmad, Mohd Naseem
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14163/1/Effects%20of%20credit%20market%20freedom%20on%20the%20convergence%20of%20Chinese%20banks%27%20profits.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14163/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1226508X.2018.1436460?journalCode=rger20

Using an unbalanced panel of 96 banks that operate in the Chinese banking sector from 2007 to 2014, we first seek to uncover the relation between credit market freedom and bank profit. Thereafter, we further analyse the freedom effects on the convergence of bank profit so as to explain the prevailin...