Bank Privatization and Performance: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria

By Thorsten Beck, Robert J. Cull, Afeikhena Jerome. 2005

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The authors assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period 1990-2001. They find evidence of performance improvement in nine banks that were privatized, which is remarkable given the inhospitable environment for true financial intermediation. Their results also suggest negative effects of the continuing minority government ownership on the performance of many Nigerian banks. The authors' results complement aggregate indications of decreasing financial intermediation over the 1990s. Banks that focused on investment in government bonds and non-lending activities enjoyed a relatively higher performance.

Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems

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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: A Joint Analysis of the Static, Selection, and Dynamic Effects of Domestic, Foreign, and State Ownership (2005, unknown): “…other findings that the weakest state-owned banks are often chosen for privatization (Clarke and Cull 2002, Beck, Crivelli, and Summerhill 2005, Beck, Cull, and Jerome 2005, Boehmer, Nash, and Netter 2005, Bonin, Hasan, and Wachtel 2005). are negative and statistically significant for both…”
Determinants of Bank Profitability: Company-Level Evidence from Nigeria (2008, unknown): “Though some studies of the Nigerian banking industry (e.g. Nwosu and Nwosu, 1998; Uche and Ehikwe, 2001; Beck et al., 2005; Brownbridge, 2005; and Aburime, 2008) have linked characteristics of individual bank companies to their profitability, no study”
Bank ownership reform and bank performance in China. (2009, methodology): “This framework has been applied to the context of Argentina by Berger et al. (2005), Brazil by Beck et al. (2005a), Nigeria by Beck et al. (2005b), and South East Asia by Williams and Nguyen (2005).”
Banking in Africa (2013, unknown): “These comparisons give a picture of African banks that are well capitalized, over-liquid and provide only limited lending to the real economy, as highlighted previously by Honohan and Beck (2007) and Beck et al. (2011). As discussed above, African banks are less efficient than banks in other develop”
The Effect of Ownership on the Prudential Behavior of Banks - The Case of China (2009, unknown): “Berger et al. (2005) and others explicitly refer to bank ownership and performance as a corporate governance topic.”
What Determines the Profitability of Commercial Banks? ew Evidence from Switzerland (2009, background): “Furthermore, Beck et al. (2005) controlled for the age of the bank since longer established banks might enjoy performance advantages over relative newcomers.”
Exploring the Nexus Between Human Capital, Corporate Governance and Performance: Evidence from Islamic Banks (2017, unknown): “Equally, longer established banks may enjoy performance advantages over relative newly incorporated banks (Beck et al., 2005), therefore, it is imperative to control for bank age.”
Bank Privatization and Productivity: Evidence for Brazil (2005, unknown): “Section 2 gives a brief overview of the banking industry in Brazil, with a special emphasis on the state-owned sector.”
Determinants of Bank Profitability Before and During the Crisis: Evidence from Switzerland (2011, background): “Furthermore, Beck et al. (2005) controlled for the age of the bank, since longer established banks might enjoy performance advantages over relative newcomers.”
Bank profitability and GDP growth in China: a note (2012, background): “In addition, there is a negative relationship between GDP growth and bank profitability.”
State bank transformation in Brazil - choices and consequences (2005, methodology): “38 Similar models are employed by Berger et al. (2005) and Beck et al. (2005). where Performance is one of three variables measuring the performance of bank i in quarter t.”