majority-owned by federal executive authorities or Central Bank of Russia, by sub-federal (regional and municipal) authorities …

State-controlled banks are currently at the core of financial intermediation in Russia. This paper aims to assess the … and indirectly state-controlled banks and construct a set of bank-level statistical data covering the period between 2000 … and 2011. By January 2011 the market share of state-controlled banks reached almost 54 percent of all bank assets, putting …

The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of … interest rates can adversely affect bank lending and firm performance. They also illustrate how negative multiplier effects …