Heracles or Sisyphus? Finding, cleaning and reconstructing a database of Russian banks

Alexei Karas and Koen Schoors

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We construct a consistent time series of balances and profit and loss accounts for a large cross-section of Russian banks. We describe our data collection and the procedures applied for controlling and aggregating the data. The resulting dataset constitutes a balanced and representative series of financial indicators covering the evolution of the Russian banking system over the last decade and offering great potential for further empirical research.

Keywords: Database; Russian banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2005-08
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