​Trust in banks is considered essential for an effective financial system, yet little is known about what determines … trust in banks. Only a handful of single-country studies discuss the topic, so this paper aims to fill the gap by providing … a cross-country analysis on the level and determinants of trust in banks. Using World Values Survey data covering 52 …

function of banks, their liquidity creation behavior may amplify business cycle fluctuations. Using the methodology of Berger … creation of Russian banks from 2004 to 2015. Detailed quarterly data on a very large sample of banks and coexistence of … different bank ownership types (state-owned, domestic private and foreign banks), makes Russia an ideal natural laboratory for …

Trust in banks is essential to financial system effectiveness. This study examines the determinants of trust in banks … in China. Using the most recent wave of the World Values Survey, which included information on trust in banks from the … individual and provincial indicators on trust in banks. We observe the influence of certain sociodemographic indicators …

Considering the evidence that China's five largest state-owned banks (the Big Five) suffer from low cost efficiency …, this paper decomposes overall efficiency of Chinese banks into: persistent efficiency and transient efficiency components … persistent efficiency and transient efficiency for a large sample of 166 Chinese banks over the period 2008–2015. In line with …

This paper investigates how past experience with banking crises influences an individual's trust in banks. We combine … data on banking crises for the period 1970–2014 with individual data on trust in banks for 52 countries. We find that … experiencing a banking crisis diminishes a person's trust in banks, and that high exposure to banking crises is negatively related …

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 … both state-owned and private banks increased their lending before presidential elections. This result stands for all loans …