IMF Working Papers

The Performance of Indian Banks During Financial Liberalization

ByPetya Koeva Brooks

July 1, 2003

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Petya Koeva Brooks. "The Performance of Indian Banks During Financial Liberalization", IMF Working Papers 2003, 150 (2003), accessed 12/6/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451856989.001

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Summary

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of financial liberalization on the performance of Indian commercial banks. The analysis focuses on examining the behavior and determinants of bank intermediation costs and profitability during the liberalization period. The empirical results suggest that ownership type has a significant effect on some performance indicators and that the observed increase in competition during financial liberalization has been associated with lower intermediation costs and profitability of the Indian banks.

Subject: Bank soundness, Banking, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Foreign banks, Loans, State-owned banks

Keywords: bank, bank profitability indicator, Bank soundness, bank spread, bank Spread, banking sector, Commercial banks, financial liberalization, Foreign banks, intermediation cost, Loans, nationalized bank, private bank, profitability, State-owned banks, WP