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 …

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 …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

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 …