The case of deposit insurance introduction in Russia may suggest that institutional change in post-socialist economies … under which explicit deposit insurance emerged in Russia might explain its subsequent (mal-)functioning and social costs … key actors (large banks controlling most household deposits and their depositors) did not demand hard a formal scheme of …

commercial banking has been inconsistent and limited in scope. To this day, core banks have yet to be privatized and the state … Russia to regulate banking and finance, including rule of law, competition, deposit insurance, bankruptcy, and corporate … Russia to an impasse - the banking sector's ownership structure hinders further advancement of market institutions. Indeed …

-in-difference approach, we find that banks' financial stability has increased substantially subsequent to the institutional reforms. Further … effects of institutional reforms on bank risk are more pronounced for domestic banks than foreign banks. From the policy …

efficiency. Government banks are associated with lower profit efficiency. The efficiency gap between foreign banks, domestic … private banks and government banks, however, has narrowed over time. We also find that the degree of individual banks … efficiency of SEE banks is 68.59% and the average profit efficiency is 53.87%. The second-stage regressions on the determinants …

conditions, controlling for the macroeconomic environment and the influence of foreign and state-owned banks. We systematically … compare CEEC banks with Western European banks. Our results indicate that banking in the CEEC is on a virtuous path, at least …

proposition using a panel of Ukrainian banks over the 2003Q2-2008Q2 period. The estimates indicate that banks decrease their …. Additionally, small and least profitable banks are less likely to be affected by changes in the macroeconomic environment compared …