The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its …

different bank ownership types (state-owned, domestic private and foreign banks), makes Russia an ideal natural laboratory for …

finding that all types of banks in Russia increase their lending before presidential elections supports the view that the … authorities in an electoral autocracy like Russia can influence lending of both private and state-owned banks for political …

, Russia, provides a natural experiment to investigate this issue. We study three alternative measures of bank liquidity …