Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivan V. Nikonov Author-Email: nikonov@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Author-Name: Arseny S. Sirotkin Author-Email: as.sirotkin@futurenpf.ru Author-Workplace-Name: JSC NPF FUTURE, Moscow 127051, Russia Title: Retail Credit Growth in Russian Regions Abstract: The article describes the development features of the retail lending in the Russian Federation after 2015–2016 recession period. The authors indicate the recent trends in the retail credit market through the analysis of mortgage and retail loan markets performance with a breakdown by groups of country regions. Groups of regions are defined by the credit growth ratio and personal income level. The groups of regions have such characteristics as living standards, dynamics of the credit growth and past due debt in different retail lending segments, and household bank deposits. The authors determine the highest retail credit growth in regions with the higher-than-average personal debt-to-income ratio, while the mortgages and retail loans show mostly proportionate dynamics in the overall retail credit growth. Classification-JEL: G21, R11 Keywords: retail lending, credit cycle, mortgage loans, retail loans, regional credit markets, foreign currency revaluation, growth decomposition Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 56-65 Issue: 1 Year: 2019 Month: February DOI: 10.31107/2075-1990-2019-1-56-65 File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2019/1/statii/fm_2019_1_05.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:190105:p:56-65