Research on rural finance efficiency and its determinants in China -Based on 2001 counties' data

摘要

This paper uses DEA method to analyze the rural financial efficiency by collecting 2001 county-level cities and counties' input-output efficiency data of rural finance, and further analyzes the factors affecting the efficiency of rural finance. It finds out that the overall level of rural financial efficiency is low, large amount of input redundancies exist in the rural finance, and the rural financial efficiency is impacted by external environment significantly.