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We assess the effects on the welfare of corporate borrowers of the recent wave of bank consolidations in the United States that has produced a small number of very large banks. Our evidence from a sample of more than 3,000 commercial borrowers from banks involved in large mergers indicates that...
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Recent empirical findings by Elsas (2005) and Degryse and Ongena (2007) document a U-shaped effect of market concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship lending. In this paper, we suggest that this...
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Recent empirical findings by Elsas (2005) and Degryse and Ongena (2007) document a U-shaped effect of market concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship lending. In this paper, we suggest that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316197
This study investigates the interrelationship among bank stability, profitability, and loan growth in the Vietnamese … these variables. More specifically, bank profitability is positively associated with bank stability and vice versa. Loan … bank profitability and loan growth. Nonetheless, these findings suggest the trade-off benefit of pursuing massive loan …
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We use unique data on banks' private risk assessments of corporate borrowers to quantify how competition among banks affect the risk sensitivity of interest rates in the Norwegian credit market. We show that an increase in competition makes corporate lending rates less sensitive to banks' own...
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How do changes in market structure impact accessibility to credit? Following the introduction of publicly disclosed Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress tests, market shares of affected banks shrunk by about 2.1 pp. Impact significantly differs across regions, with shares dropping an...
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Bank regulators interfere with the efficient allocation of resources for the sake of financial stability. Based on this trade-off, I compare how different capital requirements affect default probabilities and the allocation of market shares across heterogeneous banks. In the model, banks‘...
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Conventional wisdom holds that small banks have comparative advantages vis-à-vis large banks in serving small firms, while recent literature suggests this may not be the case. Using a panel of recent US start-ups, we investigate how small bank presence affects these firms in normal times...
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throughout the GFC. Finally, it examines the relation of a bank's home mortgage sales to its mortgage price, pricing strategy and … funding support over different stages of the GFC. We find first that big banks lead the price setting in home loan markets and … the GFC, and the effect is strongly significant. Third, the effects of mortgage price and pricing strategy on mortgage …
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across financial institutions and big banks lead in price setting. The GFC significantly changed the pricing behavior …
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