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Political cycles and bank lending in Russia
(25.03.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the reelection odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their ...
The vanishing interest income of Chinese banks
(05.02.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2020
Chinese banks likely have more non-performing loans (NPLs) than officially reported. As hidden NPLs earn no interest income, loan quality problems may erode the gross interest income of banks. Using stochastic frontier ...