Darst, Matthew; Refayet, Ehraz; Vardoulakis, Alexandros - 2020
We study how competition between banks and non-banks affects lending standards. Banks have private information about … some borrowers and are subject to capital requirements to mitigate risk-taking incentives from deposit insurance. Non-banks … in bank capital requirements. Intuitively, higher capital requirements raise banks’ skin in the game and screening out …