Banking Market Structure, Efficiency And Firm Performance In Research,

Banks play a core role in financial system in China, and the development of banking industry contributes a lot to the overall economic growth. In recent years, many domestic scholars adopt industrial organization theory research methods to carry out empirical studys on the relationship between structure and performance by the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) paradigm in China's banking industry. However, most of studies based on the natioanl datas can not reflect the actual development state of banking industry in a very region due to the unbalanced regional economic development.According to it, this paper selects the banks in Qingdao, the city with rapid economic decelopment, as research samples, introduces the theory of industrial organization structure to analyze the market structure, efficiency and performance as well as the relationship among them. In order to provide the basis of assessements and decision-making methods for the banking reform, and promote the development of Qingdao banking industry better and faster, under the background of speeding up the construction of regional financial center of Qingdao.This paper, according to the state of industrial organization theory, studies the Qingdao banking market structure, and finds that degree of monopoly decreased dramatically, meanwhile the competition intensed continuously. It has been changed from oligopolistic market to competitive market. Then, DEA and super-efficiency DEA methods are applied to evaluate and compare the overall efficiency, technical efficiency and scale efficiency of 20 banks in Qingdao from 2006 to 2009. It shows that efficiency of banks in Qingdao is at high level in general. Finally, Eviews 6.0 is applied to build a regression model based on the empirical analysis of the two above-mentioned chapters. The result proves that both the market power hypothesis and efficient structure hypothesis are of no effect in Qingdao banking industry.