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Fungáčová, Zuzana; Schoors, Koen; Solanko, Laura; … - 2020

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 presidential elections during 2004-2019, a period...

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Who cares about sanctions? : observations from annual reports of European firms

Davydov, Denis; Sihvonen, Jukka; Solanko, Laura - 2021

This paper uses textual analysis to examine how European corporations assess sanctions in their annual reports. Using observations from a panel of almost 11,500 corporate annual reports from 2014-2017, we document significant cross-country variation in how firms perceive Russia-related...

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Market power in the Russian banking industry

Fungáĉová, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura; Weill, Laurent - 2010

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Banks vs. markets : are banks more effective in facilitating sustainability?

Newton, David P.; Ongena, Steven; Xie, Ru; Zhao, Binru - 2022

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …

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A tale of two city-states : Novgorod and Pskov in the 1990s

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