What contributes to total factor productivity growth in the Chinese banking sector?
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We propose a new metafrontier, non-radial, biennial Luenberger productivity indicator to evaluate the total factor productivity growth of the Chinese banking sector, during the period of 2004–2012. The bootstrapping approach is also taken into account to introduce the statistical inference of the total factor productivity, and its components. It is found that the overall Chinese banking sector operated well with an average growth rate of 5.4%, where technological progress was the driving force promoting the development of the Chinese banking sector during the earlier studied period, and efficiency gains outperformed technological progress during the later studied period. We investigated three banking groups, state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock commercial banks depending on their technological progress, but city commercial banks were dominated by efficiency gains. Regarding the productivity growth gap, the metafrontier productivity growth gap and efficiency change gap appeared to show gradual convergences, but the technological change gap maintained the width at a certain extent.
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total factor productivity, metafrontier, biennial technology, Directional distance function, data envelopment analysis, bootstrapping approachHow to Cite
Zhu, N., Zhang, N., Wang, B., & Baležentis, T. (2018). What contributes to total factor productivity growth in the Chinese banking sector?. Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 24(2), 792-811. https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2018.249
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Duygun, M.; Sena, V.; Shaban M. 2016. Trademarking activities and total factor productivity: Some evidence for British commercial banks using a metafrontier approach, Journal of Banking & Finance 72(S): 70–80. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.04.017"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2016.04.017</a>
Färe, R.; Grosskopf, S.; Norris, M.; Zhang, Z. 1994. Productivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency change in industrialized countries, American Economic Review 84(1): 66–83.
Fu, T.-T.; Juo, J.-C.; Chiang, H.-C.; Yu, M.-M.; Huang, M.-Y. 2016. Risk-based decompositions of the meta profit efficiency of Taiwanese and Chinese banks, Omega 62: 34–46. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2015.08.007"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2015.08.007</a>
Fujji, H.; Managi, S.; Matousek, R. 2014. Indian bank efficiency and productivity changes with undesirable outputs: Aa disaggregated approach, Journal of Banking & Finance 38(1): 41–50. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.09.022"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.09.022</a>
Hayami, Y. 1969. Sources of agricultural productivity gap among selected countries, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 51 (3): 564–575. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.2307/1237909"> https://doi.org/10.2307/1237909</a>
Hayami, Y.; Ruttan, V. M. 1970. Agricultural productivity differences among countries, American Economic Review 60 (5): 895–911.
Huang, T. H.; Chiang, L. C.; Chen, K. C. 2011. An empirical study of bank efficiencies and technology gaps in European banking, The Manchester School 79(4): 839–860. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2010.02178.x"> https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2010.02178.x</a>
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Lee, C.-C.; Huang, T.-H. 2017. Cost efficiency and technological gap in Western European banks: A stochastic metafrontier analysis, International Review of Economics & Finance 48: 161–178. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2016.12.003"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2016.12.003</a>
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Matthews, K.; Zhang, X.; Guo, J. 2009. Nonperforming loans and productivity in Chinese banks, 1997–2006, The Chinese Economy 42(2): 30–47. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.2753/CES1097-1475420202"> https://doi.org/10.2753/CES1097-1475420202</a>
O’Donnell, C. P.; Rao, D. S. P.; Battese, G. E. 2008. Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios, Empirical Economics 34(2): 231–255. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-007-0119-4"> https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-007-0119-4</a>
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Pasiouras, F. 2008. International evidence on the impact of regulations and supervision on banks’ technical efficiency: Aan application of two-stage data envelopment analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 30(2): 187–223. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-007-0046-7"> https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-007-0046-7</a>
Pastor, J.; Asmild, M.; Lovell, C. A. K. 2011. The biennial Malmquist productivity change index, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 45(1): 10–15. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2010.09.001"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2010.09.001</a>
Pastor, J.; Lovell, C. A. K. 2005. A global Malmquist productivity index, Economics Letters 88(2): 266–271. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2005.02.013"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2005.02.013</a>
Portela, M.; Thanassoulis, E. 2010. Malmquist-type indices in the presence of negative data: Aan application to bank branches, Journal of Banking & Finance 34(7): 1472–1483. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.01.004"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.01.004</a>
Ray, S. C.; Desli, E. 1997. Productivity growth, technical progress and efficiency change in industrialized countries: comment, American Economic Review 87(5): 1033–1039.
Simar, L.; Wilson, P. 1998. Sensitivity analysis of efficiency scores: how to bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models, Management Science 44(1): 49–61. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.44.1.49"> https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.44.1.49</a>
Sufian, F. 2009. The impact of off-balance sheet items on banks’ total factor productivity: Eempirical evidence from the Chinese banking sector, American Journal of Finance and Accounting 1(3): 213–238. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1504/AJFA.2009.026482"> https://doi.org/10.1504/AJFA.2009.026482</a>
Tone, K. 2001. A slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis, European Journal of Operational Research 130 (3): 498–509. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00407-5"> https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00407-5</a>
Tulkens, H.; Vanden Eeckaut, P. 1995. Non-parametric efficiency, progress and regress measures for panel data: methodological aspects, European Journal of Operational Research 80(3): 474–499. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(94)00132-V"> https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(94)00132-V</a>
Zhu, N.; Wang, B.; Wu, Y. R. 2015. Productivity, efficiency, and non-performing loans in the Chinese banking industry, The Social Science Journal 52(4): 468–480. <a target="_blank" href= "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2014.10.003"> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2014.10.003</a>
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Zhu, N., Zhang, N., Wang, B., & Baležentis, T. (2018). What contributes to total factor productivity growth in the Chinese banking sector?. Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 24(2), 792-811. https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2018.249