Corporate governance and banking in China / / Michael N.T. Tan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786423303321
• Autore: Tan Michael <1945-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-05652-1; 1-136-05653-X; 0-203-07836-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Contemporary China Series ; ; 98
• Disciplina: 332.10951
• Soggetti: Banks and banking - China; Banks and banking - Government policy - China; Corporate governance - China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of acronyms and abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1 Preamble""; ""2 Overview of banking system""; ""3 Research objectives""; ""4 The reform of China's banking sector""; ""5 Conceptual tools to analyse corporate governance""; ""6 Summary""; ""2 Models of corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Models of corporate governance""; ""3 Conclusion""; ""3 Corporate governance in transitional economies""; ""1 An overview of transitional economies""; ""2 The Big Bang approach versus the Gradualist approach""""3 Reasons for the different economic results""; ""4 Corporate governance in Russia""; ""5 Corporate governance in Central and Eastern European countries""; ""6 Comparison of corporate governance in Russia and China""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""4 The Chinese perspective on corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The history of corporate governance in China""; ""3 Chinese scholarship on corporate governance""; ""4 Conclusion""; ""5 Chinese corporate governance problems encountered""; ""1 Misconceptions about corporate governance""; ""2 Problems of governance at the micro level""""3 Problems of ; governance at the macro level""; ""4 Results of lack of corporate governance""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""6 External determinants of corporate governance""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The China Banking Regulatory Commission""; ""3 The China Securities Regulatory Commission""; ""4 Code of Corporate Governance""; ""5 Business and informal networks""; ""6 The role of the state and the Chinese Communist Party""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""7 Financial systems and economic growth""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Measurement of the development of banking and finance""""3 Bank based and market based financial systems""; ""4 How financial systems impact on economic growth""; ""5 Corporate governance and economic growth""; ""6 Why aim for economic growth?""; ""7 What causes long-term economic growth?""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""8 A historical perspective of City Commercial Banks in China""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Background of China's Urban Credit Cooperatives""; ""3 The emergence and development of UCCs""; ""4 The unique features of UCCs""; ""5 Origins of CCBs""; ""6 Foreign investor interest in China's CCBs""""7 Foreign investments in CCBs""; ""8 China's CCBs""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""9 Government policies affecting City Commercial Banks""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 National policies of the National Development and Reform Commission""; ""3 Preferred lending policies directed by the government""; ""4 Bridging the urbanâ€?rural and richâ€?poor divide""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""10 Foreign partners in China's City Commercial Banks""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Foreign investors in China's CCBs""; ""3 Part 1: the Australian banks""; ""4 Part 2: the European banks""; ""5 Part 3: the Asian banks""