Analyzing factors affecting the performance of Vietnam’s commerical banks in the era of international financial integration

Abstract

The paper researches on factors affecting the performance of Vietnam‟s commercial banks in the integration period of 2005 – 2011, using Stochastic Frontier Panel Data (SFA) method. The results suggest that the performance of Vietnam‟s commercial banks are determined by two main groups of factors, which are subjective and objective. The former includes market share, liquidity risk, foreign holding ratio and bank size while the latter consists of GNP, and inflation. Determinants of the performance of Vietnam‟s commercial banks are foreign holding ratio, banking size and market share.