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Impacts of Cross-border Capital Flow on Banks' Soundness: Empirical Research Based on Top 10 Banks in China

Yang Haizhen1,2, Huang Qiubin1   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190;
    2. Research Centre on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
  • Received:2014-12-23 Online:2015-10-31 Published:2015-11-06

Abstract:

The paper concludes the influence and mechanism of cross-border capital flows on banks' soundness at first and then measures the soundness of top 10 banks in China based on data from 2006Q1 to 2014Q1. The results show that the soundness increases gradually during 2006 to 2012, and decreases during 2013 to the first quarter of 2014. Furthermore, we investigate the influence of cross-border capital flows on banks' soundness based on panel data model. We find that the rise of cross-border capital net flow significantly decreases the degree of top ten banks' soundness. We distinguish different kinds of capital flows and find that neither direct investment nor portfolio investment could impair banks' soundness. However, the net flow of other investment exerts significantly a negative effect on top ten banks' soundness.

Key words: capital flows, bank soundness, commercial bank