The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its … determinants over the period 2001-2007 with the Lerner index. Earlier studies on bank competition have focused on developed … countries whereas this paper contributes to the analysis of bank competition in emerging markets. We find that bank competition …

There has been a notable debate in the banking literature on the impact of bank competition on financial stability … providing the first empirical investigation of the role of bank competition on the occurrence of bank failures. We analyze this … competition. The Russian banking industry is a unique example of an emerging market which has undergone a large number of bank …