We utilize high-frequency data to study heterogeneity in access to bank-level information by corporate depositors during a banking crisis. We examine a bank panic episode in Russia during Summer-2004 triggered by the Central Bank announcement to liquidate banks for suspicious operations. Our...

We use mandatory Russian banks' reports to the Central Bank to construct a novel measure of offshore-banking. Individual bank involvement in offshore operations is calculated as a fraction of total transactions with foreign countries that go through offshore financial centers. We find that...

We study the impact of human capital transfer from banks to non-financial firms on firms' ability to borrow from banks. Using a unique, employee-employer matched dataset from Russia, we find that hiring an ex-banker increases a firm's likelihood to secure a bank loan, and the effect is higher...