WTO challenges and efficiency of Chinese banks

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 629-643

  Yao, Shujie ^a,c   Jiang, Chunxia ^b   Feng, Genfu ^c   Willenbockel, Dirk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONOPOLY; PANEL DATA; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33947503073     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500447799     Document Type: Article

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