Exporting is not only an activity in need of financing, but also a knowledge-intensive activity. Using firm-level destination country-specific export data and bank branch data from China, we find that foreign banks can significantly promote local firms’ export toward the destination country...

This paper analyzes costly favoritism related to physical attractiveness and gender in bank loan markets using a market structure-based method. The rationale is that a concentrated market provides more space for loan officers to discriminate against a certain group of borrowers. Using several...

We study how information sharing between banks influences the geographical clustering of branches. A spatial oligopoly model first explains why branches cluster and how information sharing impacts price competition and equilibrium clustering. With data on 59,333 branches of 676 banks in 22...