We use statistical data for the period 2000-2013 to compare the macro-level structure and the core institutions of the banking systems in China and Russia. Our main hypothesis is that, differences in the absolute size and socio-cultural features nothwithstanding, these two systems are...

In 1999, the Studies on Russian Economic Development published an article comparing the Russian model of banking with the Chinese one [Speranskaya, 1999]. The author looks at government banking and the relevance of banks for the non-financial economy and concludes that banking models in China...