Impact of the financial crises in the period 1992-2014 on the Russian banking sector

This bachelor thesis gives detailed analysis of six bank crises in Russia in 1992-2014. The main objective was to examine their influence on the banking system and consequently on the economy of Russia. The first part covers the theoretical background of banking crises. Attention is paid to both macroeconomic and institutional factors. The second part describes and evaluates individual crisis episodes, analyzes their causes and evaluates their impact on the Russian banking sector. Emphasis is placed on the comparison between the crises in 1998 and 2008 and different policies of Russia and the USA to restore the stability of the banking sector in the context of Global Financial Crisis after 2008. The aim of the thesis is (i) to determine the impact of individual crises on the Russian banking system, economy and what has contributed to it. Consequently (ii) the second objective was to make recommendations on how to overcome these crises or at least reduce their severity