Author

Title

The main contents or conclusions

Yu Wei

Li Wang

(1997)

Research on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks: a non-parametric analysis

The paper considered Chinese commercial banks’ technical efficiency, scale efficiency and returns to scale, and proposed measures to improve the efficiency of the bank [17]

Jianhua Zhang

(2003)

The DEA methods and an empirical analysis on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks from 1997 to 2001

The paper measured the efficiency of all types’ commercial banks and pointed out the overall resource utilization level of Chinese banking sector. [18]

Nan Zhu etc.

(2004)

An empirical research and reform strategies on the efficiency of Chinese state-owned commercial banks

This paper showed that the utilizations of human resource were not high in Chinese state-owned commercial banks and the overall efficiency of commercial banks was in a lower level. [19]

Yong Luo

Lili Cao

(2005)

The evaluation on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks based on super-efficiency model

This paper pointed out that the efficiency of joint-stock commercial banks were generally higher than that of state-owned commercial banks [20] .

Daqiang Yang

Aiwu Zhang

(2007)

The evaluation on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks from 1996 to 2005

The paper showed that Chinese commercial banks had significant cost efficiency and profit efficiency, what’s more, the cost efficiency and profit efficiency of the state-owned commercial banks were higher than that of joint-stock commercial banks, but efficiency growth rate of the latter slower than the former significantly [21] .

Jinlan Yao

Dingxiang Mao

(2009)

The evaluation and analysis on efficiency of joint-stock commercial banks based on DEA-Tobit two-step method

This paper showed that there was a significant positive correlation between profitability of assets and bank efficiency while savings and loan ratio correlated to bank efficiency negatively [22] .

Min Feng

Daojun Fang

(2011)

The analysis on operating efficiency of listed commercial banks based on DEA method (2003-2010)

This paper analyzed the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of 13 Chinese listed commercial banks from 2003 to 2010 and pointed out measures for Chinese commercial banks to improve operational efficiency [23]

QingJun Cui

Zengyao Zhao

Qunwei Wang

(2012)

The research on operating efficiency of Chinese commercial banks considering undesirable output

This paper showed that the operating efficiency of 14 Chinese commercial banks have been improved to some extent from 2005 to 2010 [24] .

Jinming Zhang

Peng Liao

Juanjuan Xie

(2012)

The analysis on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks under the constraint of non-performing loans

To measure the efficiency of 11 Chinese listed commercial banks under the constraint of non-performing loans by using directional distance function and DEA super-efficiency model [25] .

Qian He

Xingyu Chen

(2013)

An empirical analysis on efficiency of Chinese commercial banks based on DEA method

The paper showed that most of the commercial banks have not reached economies of scale and were at the stage of increasing returns to scale while four state-owned commercial banks, except Bank of China, were at the stage of decreasing returns to scale [26]