Cross‐regional comparative study on digital finance and finance efficiency in China: The eastern and non‐eastern areas

Digital finance is expected to improve the financial development of economic backward regions through its inclusive nature. Therefore, this paper selects the financial data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2017 to evaluate regional finance disparities with the inclusion of digital finance, usin...

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Published inManagerial and decision economics Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 68 - 83
Main Authors Wang, Qian, Yang, Jinbao, Chiu, Yung‐ho, Lin, Tai‐Yu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.01.2023
Subjects
Comparative studies
Finance
Provinces
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Summary:Digital finance is expected to improve the financial development of economic backward regions through its inclusive nature. Therefore, this paper selects the financial data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2017 to evaluate regional finance disparities with the inclusion of digital finance, using the meta‐frontier slack‐based measure dynamic DEA model. The results are as follows. (1) The overall financial efficiency, input efficiency, output efficiency, and TGR in the eastern region are better than those in the non‐eastern region. (2) With the inclusion of digital finance, the finance efficiency gaps in the eastern and non‐eastern regions have expanded.
Bibliography:Funding information
Social Science Foundation of Jilin University, Grant/Award Number: 2021XWK03
ISSN:0143-6570
1099-1468
DOI:10.1002/mde.3667