efficiency scores for a sample of Chinese banks over the period 2002–2011. Granger-causality tests are performed in a dynamic GMM … competition negatively Granger-causes cost efficiency for Western banks, we find no significant relation between competition and …

the banking sector consists of a mix of state-controlled banks, foreign-owned banks, and domestic private banks. To … Russian banks covering the period from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2009. Our findings suggest that bank ownership …. Relative to domestic private banks foreign-owned banks reduced their credit supply more and state-controlled banks less. This …

. 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 … influence of the presence of domestic-owned banks or foreign-owned banks on the spread. Additional estimations considering …

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 …

. 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 …

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

Considering the evidence that China's five largest state-owned banks (the Big Five) suffer from low cost efficiency …, this paper decomposes overall efficiency of Chinese banks into: persistent efficiency and transient efficiency components … persistent efficiency and transient efficiency for a large sample of 166 Chinese banks over the period 2008–2015. In line with …

Considering the evidence that China's five largest state-owned banks (the Big Five) suffer from low cost efficiency …, this paper decomposes overall efficiency of Chinese banks into: persistent efficiency and transient efficiency components … persistent efficiency and transient efficiency for a large sample of 166 Chinese banks over the period 2008–2015. In line with …