We aim to analyze how the cyclical patterns in state bank lending behavior diverge from other bank types throughout economic downturns. Exploiting the exogenous shock that occurred during the Global Financial Crisis, we use high-frequency spatial banking data belonging to a large emerging...

We analyze the impact of foreign shareholdings on the performance of 28 Chinese commercial banks over a period of 2010-2019, capturing the period prior to and following the reforms of 2014. Using panel data GMM with instrumental variables, we consider bank performance from three perspectives:...

In Romania, as in many Central and Eastern Europe countries, during the communist regime all the banks were owned by the state and their activities were circumscribed by rigid norms. After the communist regime had fallen, the state owned banks had to adapt to a competitive environment. The...

This paper analyses the development of the Russian banking sector over the period 2001-2007 to assess the impact of ownership on the operations of commercial banks. The stochastic frontier approach is employed for a sample of the 50 largest Russian banks to determine cost efficiency differences...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between bank ownership and bank profitability in six South Eastern European countries (SEE-6): Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, FYR Macedonia, and Albania. Like in most other Eastern European countries, the transition period in the...

The paper examines how the type of ownership affects the profit efficiency of Russian banks. Using bank-quarter data for selected banks in the period 2004–2015, we combine stochastic frontier anal-ysis (SFA) methodology with an intermediary approach to assess profit efficiency. Our key...

This paper analyzes interest margin determinants in the Russian banking sector with a particular emphasis on the bank ownership structure. Using a unique bank-level data covering Russia's entire banking sector for the 1999−2007 period, we find that the impact of a number of commonly used...

This paper investigates the cost efficiency of Russian banks with regard to their heterogeneity in terms of ownership form, capitalization and asset structure. Using bank-level quarterly data over the period 2005–2013, we perform stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and compute cost efficiency...

Many reforms of banking market liberalization in CEE countries raised the question on the convergence of banks' competitive behaviour, particularly because of the presence of foreign banks from same European regions. We find within-country convergence of three used bank competition measures,...

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...