The development of shadow banking system in China catalyzes the expansion of banks' off-balance-sheet activities, resulting in a distortion of China's traditional credit expansion and underestimation of its commercial banks' overall risk. This paper is the first to incorporate banks' overall...

The paper estimates banks' total factor efficiency (TFE) as well as TFE of each production factor by incorporating banks' overall risk endogenously into bank's production process as undesirable by-product in a Global-SMB Model. Our results show that, compared with a model incorporated with...

The development of shadow banking system in China catalyzes the expansion of banks' off-balance-sheet activities, resulting in a distortion of China's traditional credit expansion and underestimation of its commercial banks' overall risk. This paper is the first to incorporate banks' overall...