• Media type: E-Book; Bibliography
  • Title: Banking and insurance in the new China : competition and the challenge of accession to the WTO
  • Contains: Contents: Preface -- 1. China's banking industry during the process of institutional transformation -- 2. The evolution of China's insurance market -- 3. The impact of WTO accession on China's banking and insurance industries -- 4. Empirical analysis of market structure, behavior and performance -- 5. Perspectives -- References -- Index.
  • Contributor: Chen, Jianxun [VerfasserIn]; Shi, Huici [VerfasserIn]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • imprint: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004
  • Published in: Advances in Chinese economic studies series
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 166 pages)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781035305032
  • RVK notation: QK 010 : Bank-, Geld- und Kreditwesen einzelner Länder
  • Keywords: China > Kreditwesen
    China > Versicherungswirtschaft
    China > World Trade Organization
    China > Kreditwesen
    China > Versicherungswirtschaft
    China > World Trade Organization
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index
  • Description: Financial reform has been a major concern for China's transitional economy - especially in the realms of banking and insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during the process of institutional transformation, and demonstrates that they are now facing severe challenges as well as opportunities. The relationships between the market structure, behavior and performance of China's banking and insurance industries are analysed. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat (SWOT) approach is utilized in investigating the impact of WTO accession on Chinese banking and insurance, and strategies for the prevention of future financial crises are prescribed. Exploring the juxtaposition of institutional transformation in China and the financial risk inherent in the old system, the book concludes that with WTO accession and the opening up of financial services to foreign companies, competitiveness will become fiercer, resulting in increased uncertainty, intensifying the level of risk even further. Banking and Insurance in the New China will prove invaluable to multinational enterprise managers, brokers, dealers and investors, business economists, students and academics with a specific interest in the Chinese economy