This paper provides micro and macroeconomic analysis of the economic role of banks in the Russian economy. Using a … financing. Econometric model put out the existence of liquidity providing activity of Russian banks. Even though the overall … banks in their liquidity providing role. …

creation and perform estimations on a large set of Russian banks. Our findings suggest that the introduction of the deposit … negative sign of the relationship. The implication is that better capitalized banks tend to create less liquidity, which …

the banking sector consists of a mix of state-controlled banks, foreign-owned banks, and domestic private banks. To … estimate credit supply changes, we employ an exhaustive dataset for Russian banks that covers the crisis period and apply an … financial crisis and that the crisis led to an overall decrease in the credit supply. Relative to domestic private banks foreign …

state and various public organizations still own controlling shares in the largest commercial banks. The state is also …

. While the dominant view sees a detrimental impact of competition on the stability of banks, this view has recently been … issue based on a large sample of Russian banks over the period 2001-2007 and employ the Lerner index as the metric of bank …

operations differs across state-controlled, domestic-private and foreign-owned banks. At the same time, the influence of …

The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its … has only slightly improved during the period studied. The mean Lerner index for Russian banks is of the same magnitude as …. Furthermore, we find no greater market power for state-controlled banks nor less market power for foreign-owned banks. We would …

has, however, contributed to a decrease in the capital adequacy ratio, thus influencing the ability of banks to cope with … risk. Using quarterly data spanning from 1999 to 2007 on all Russian banks, we investigate the relationship between bank … characteristics and risk-taking by Russian banks. The analysis of financial ratios reveals that, on average, the risk levels are still …

. Following Berger, Klapper and Udell (2001), we test whether local banks possess a superior ability to deal with information … studies, we distinguish foreign banks with a local presence from those without such presence. The intuition here is that a … local presence may influence a foreign bank’s monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …