financial inclusion, we draw on data for 117 countries in the World Bank's Global Findex database and perform logit estimations …

Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002 …-2020, spanning four election cycles, we test the hypothesis that bank failures are less likely before presidential elections. We find … that bank failures are less likely to occur in the twelve months leading up to an election. However, we do not observe …