State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of … incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before … both state-owned and private banks increased their lending before presidential elections. This result stands for all loans …

We investigate whether European banks adjust their loan prices and volumes of new lending in the months running up to … 2010 to 2020 at monthly frequency, and that includes lending amounts and interest rates on new lending, we find that …