This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection …, we exploit regional banking variation induced by the creation of “specialized banks” (spetsbanks) in the last years of … uncorrelated with 15 predictors of future growth, including pre-banking income, education, anti-market sentiment, institutional …

public financing to firms via the banking system. The effect of public incentives depends on the availability of financial …

finance than their male counterparts. According to statistical evidence, female firms have difficulty in accessing bank … finance: on the demand side, they apply for bank loans less frequently, as they more often anticipate a rejection; on the …

is greater a) in banks belonging to the major banking groups, with larger and younger boards; and b) in banks that are …

. This paper proposes a straightforward approach for estimating the systemic funding liquidity risk in a banking system and …

, thus lowering pricing effectiveness. The main finding is that larger banking groups were more affected by the sudden …

means that, surprisingly, the association between stock prices and spreads of the banking sector does not seem to surge in …