Lending is a political issue in Russia

Zuzana Fungáčová, Laura Solanko and Laurent Weill

We extend our previous work on bank lending around elections in Russia's electoral autocracy (Fungáčová et al., 2023) by considering the most recent data on bank lending and 2024 presidential election. Unlike the elections held between 2004 and 2019, our findings show no systematic evidence of increased bank lending ahead the 2024 presidential election. This reduced political interference in pre-election lending since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 may reflect a tendency towards traditional autocracy in Russia.

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Year of publication:	28 July 2025
Authors:	Fungáčová, Zuzana ; Solanko, Laura ; Weill, Laurent
Publisher:	Helsinki : Bank of Finland, BOFIT, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies
Subject:	bank \| lending \| politics \| Russia \| electoral autocracy \| war

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 15 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	BOFIT policy brief. - Helsinki : Bank of Finland, BOFIT - Bank of Finland Institute of Emerging Economies, ZDB-ID 3116380-4. - Vol. 2025, 12
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	Finnish
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/323945 [Handle]
Classification:	G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages ; P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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