The paper aims to make the first assessment of the impact that presence of foreigncontrolled banks have produced on the Russian economy and banking system. So far foreign banks have gained a modest market share in Russia with 7% of the combined assets of the banking system. They have made some...

The paper aims to make the first assessment of the impact that presence of foreigncontrolled banks have produced on the Russian economy and banking system. So far foreign banks have gained a modest market share in Russia with 7% of the combined assets of the banking system. They have made some...

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 considers the comparative efficiency of public, private, and foreign banks in Rus-sia, a transition economy with several unusual features. We perform stochastic frontier anal-ysis (SFA) of Russian bank-level quarterly data over the period 2005–2013. The method of computation of...