State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of … incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before … both state-owned and private banks increased their lending before presidential elections. This result stands for all loans …

This paper investigates how past experience with banking crises influences an individual's trust in banks. We combine … data on banking crises for the period 1970-2014 with individual data on trust in banks for 52 countries. We find that … experiencing a banking crisis diminishes a person's trust in banks, and that high exposure to banking crises is negatively related …

recapitalisation of problematic banks under both of our proposed baseline and adverse scenarios. -- stress testing ; bank ; Russia …

banks over the period 2006-2017, we investigate how the reaction of the loan supply to monetary policy actions depends on a … overall, it does favor the transmission of monetary policy for banks with low loan-to-deposit ratios. In addition, the …