The purpose of this paper is to carefully assess the size of public sector within the Russian banking industry. We identify and classify at least 78 state-influenced banks. For the state-owned banks, we distinguish between those that are majority-owned by federal executive authorities or Central...

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...

This paper looks at the populations of state-owned banks and foreign-owned banks in Russia in dynamics from 1991 to 2023, focusing on the number of entities and their market shares. The paper also features subsamples within each of those two ownership types, thus improving the homogeneity of...