The goal of financial regulation is to enable banks to improve liquidity and solvency. Stricter regulation may be good for bank stability, but not for bank efficiency. This research aims to examine whether banks have met the CBRC's standard of financial regulations and explores how the...

Unlike studies investigating only the characteristics of bank regulation that affect the concurrent static efficiency of banks, this paper uses a dynamic, slacks-based measure to study the persistent and intertemporal effects on the dynamic efficiency of banks in the long run. The authors find...

Taiwan's Financial Restructuring Fund Statute was enacted in 2001. This study is unique in simultaneously considering Taiwan's corporate governance, bank mergers, and the financial restructuring scheme. Unlike other literature that investigates only the characteristics of corporate governance...