China’s ‘big five’ banks highly inefficient – Bank of Finland paper

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China’s largest banks are considerably less cost-efficient than most of the country’s other lenders, a working paper published by the Bank of Finland finds.

In Persistent and transient inefficiency: explaining the low efficiency of Chinese big banks, Zuzana Fungáčová, Paul-Olivier Klein and Laurent Weill look at the “big five”, China’s largest state-owned lenders.

The authors use publicly available data to compare the efficiency of these five banks with that of 166 other Chinese lenders from

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