Empirical Research On The Relationship Between Corporate Governance And The Performance Of The Listed Banks In China

The banking industry whose performance will influence the healthy development of the macroeconomic has a foundational position in a country's economy. It accounted for more than 90% of the financial assets, and met for more than 80% of the financing need of all kinds of enterprise, it also assumed most of the cost of the reform, its development is the most important part of the Chinese economic reform. However, according to the requirements of financial industry openness by WTO, meanwhile, Chinese interest formation mechanism is gradually becoming market-oriented. Under this condition, banks, as the core of financial industry and Chinese economy, are facing more and more furious and fierce competition, whose essential is the competition of modern banking system. Commercial banking corporate governance system is the core of modem banking system, it decides the competitive ability of banks. A favorable corporate governance structure is the foundation for a bank to gain sustained competitiveness. As financial system reform going deeper and deeper, the perfection of governance structure is the only way of promoting competitive ability of banks. Based on these, this paper analyzes the relationship between the corporate governance structure and their performance of listed banks in China by normative and empirical study. This is of great theory and practice importance to know the corporate governance situation and improve the corporate governance structure of commercial banks in China.At present there had a lot of related research on the field of corporate governance of the banks, but many of them were based on the theory deduction. In my opinion the reason of the problem is that the commercial banks in China exposed limited data. With the commercial banks were listed one after another, the banks exposed more and more data, which provided the possibility for the empirical study. In the field of theory research, most Chinese scholar prefer the financial indicator to measure the performance, however, the performance is a comprehensive expression. This paper considered the profitability, liquidity and safety of the banks comprehensively, obtained the comprehensive performance by the method of the principal component analysis. Based on the theory of the corporate governance and the research of scholars it proposed several theoretical hypotheses on the aspects of ownership structure, the director board and supervisors board, top managers encouragement, and verified these hypotheses by establish multiple linear regression model. The empirical study indicated that:there is a "U" relation between ownership concentration, scale of director board, scale of supervisors board and the performance; and there is a positive relation between ownership restriction, the encouragement of top management and the performance; there is a negative relation between the frequency of board of directors' conference and performance; in addition, the relation between the independence of board of directors, frequency of board of supervisor's conference and performance is not clear. The innovation of this paper lying in collecting the relevant data of 14 listed banks in a long period by the method of panel data, considered the profitability, liquidity and safety of the banks comprehensively, obtained the comprehensive performance by the method of the principal component analysis, which reflected the comprehensive viability of the banks. Then, the remaining problems in this paper is that not considering the external environment of the listed banks, and the relation between the independence of board of directors, frequency of board of supervisor's conference and performance is not clear. We should study this issue in the future.