Chinese provinces over the period 1995–2003, we assess the impact of banks and non-bank financial institutions on local … and more profoundly from China’s financial reforms than their non-bank counterparts. …

rapidly developing financial system. Specifically, we exam whether the central bank's monetary policy stance affects banks … the existence of a bank lending channel in Russia. Contrary to several studies on developed economies, the level of a bank …

, we empirically investigate whether bank liquidity creation fosters economic growth in a large emerging market, Russia. We … follow the methodology of Berger and Bouwman (2009) to measure bank liquidity creation using a rich and exhaustive dataset of … for Russian regions in the period 2004–2012. Our results suggest that bank liquidity creation fosters economic growth …

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …

This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia … variables including information on local bank participation and the characteristics of loans and borrowers. Unlike earlier … local presence may influence a foreign bank’s monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …

bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …