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« Effectiveness of Russian state banks as financial intermediaries ». Ekaterina Glushkova , Banking Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Efficiency of state banks: empirical findings on transition countries.
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«Effectiveness of Russian state banks as financial intermediaries» Ekaterina Glushkova, Banking Department, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Efficiency of state banks: empirical findings on transition countries Bonin, Hasan, Wachtel [2005]: government-owned banks are less efficient than domestic private banks but not significantly so; Kraft, Hofler and Payne [2006]: green-field private and privatized banks are not more efficient than public banks, privatization does not immediately improve efficiency, while foreign banks are substantially more efficient than all domestic banks; Russia: Fries, Taci [2005]: foreign ownership and private ownership are both associated with greater efficiency; Styrin [2005]: Russian banks affiliated with the state are not either more or less cost-efficient, other things equal, greater efficiency of foreign banks concluded, whereas public ownership is not significant for explaining efficiency; Karas et al. [2010]: in the Russian banking market foreign banks are more efficient than domestic private banks, but domestic private banks are not more efficient than public banks.
Motivation controversial findings of panel-data estimates on transition countries; little research devoted to the analysis of the issue with regard to Russian banking industry; thus, demand in a more in-depth analysis.
State banks performance: theoretical assumptions DEVELOPMENT VIEW POLITICAL VIEW VS • performance different from that of private banks; • variant strategic goals and management incentives; • inability to operate on purely commercial terms • …
Researchquestions • assets and liabilities structure - focus: • key activities; • funds sources; • state-authorities’ and non-residents’ «intensity» «intermediation quality» of state banks’ activities • ROA; • ROE; • NIM; • Staff expenses/assets; • Assets income / Liabilities expenses relative profitability of state banks • leverage; • loan quality; • credit and liquidity risk prudential ratios state banks’ risk-profile
«Target»sample Source: Vernikov, A.V. (2009), Russian Banking: The State Makes a Comeback? - BOFIT Discussion Paper No.24/2009, Bank of Finland.
Group-wise comparisons of: «target» sample: 57 74 «target» sample: state-owned banks state-governed banks state-influenced banks VS domestic and foreign private banking institutions
Data: Statistics: Interfax agency quarterly (balance sheet and P&L-based) bank-level data : 1 Quarter 2006 – 1 Quarter 2009 13 observations for each sampled bank
Results: intermediation measures State-owned banks ~ foreign banks: willingly invest in government (and non-government) securities; exhibit relatively high share of interbank loans in total assets; enjoy continuing growth of the proportion of loans to non-residents in total loans, high non-residents’ share in assets and liabilities. but: still enjoy high share of public authorities in total loans to non-banks; high share of the state in residents’ deposits, current and settlement accounts; are much less dependent on interbank loans as the source of funds compared to private banks (both domestic and foreign); exhibit much lower «loan-to-deposit» ratio than private banks (both domestic and foreign. !!! These trends majorly relate to the sub-category of banks with direct state ownership at federal level, while other state-connected banks in most cases do not significantly differ from national private institutions.
Results: profitability ! State-connected banks are definitely not more efficient than either banks with foreign ownership or national private banks: much lower ROA (with directly state-owned banks at federal and sub-federal level being the least efficient); the efficiency gap is less solid in terms of ROE; in terms of NIMs national private banks are the most efficient (even compared to foreign-owned banks) while the latter do not substantially differ from all groups of state-connected banks; on average are less efficient than private banks in terms of the extent to which the overall expenditures on liabilities are covered by total income on assets.
Results: risk characteristics ! State banks: on average exhibit quite similar level of credit risk in terms of the share of NPLs to that of their private peers: while: the NPLs share ratio substantially differs within the group of state-connected banks; the proportion of loan-loss provisions in total loans is much lower for banks with state ownership; do not significantly differ from private peers in terms of large credit risk.
Conclusions and further research: Findings are rather mixed and in some cases significantly differ from the previous studies of the issue => further investigation needed. Directions for future research: at micro level: factors affecting the differences in operating efficiency and other performance indicators of Russian banks with respect to ownership structure; at macro level: the impact of state presence on the depth of financial intermediation and stability of the banking sector. Thank you for your attention!
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Contacts: Ekaterina Glushkova Banking Department - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, katia_glushkova@mail.ru