Research Article

Noninterest Income and Performance of Commercial Banking in China

Table 1

The explanation of the model variables.

Category VariableCalculation of the variableExplanation

Explained variablePerformanceROENet profit/net assetThe performance of profitability

Explanatory variableNoninterest incomeNIRNoninterest income/total operating incomeHow much and how well banks carry out noninterest business

Control variable Bad loan ratio (BAD)Nonperforming loans/balance of loansThe credit assets’ security condition
Capital adequacy ratio (CAR)Capital/risk-weighted assetHow well the risk control ability is
Cost ratio (COST)Operating cost/operating incomeAbility of control of the cost