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We investigate the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on local loan officers' autonomy in small business lending. We derive a simple agency model of the interaction between a local branch manager and the headquarters, which yields an estimable equation for the optimal...
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This paper provides empirical confirmation for Petersen and Rajan's (2002) widely accepted conjecture that information technology was the primary driver of the observed increase in small business borrower-lender distances in the United States in recent years. Using a different data source for...
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This paper provides empirical confirmation for Petersen and Rajan's (2002) widely accepted conjecture that information technology was the primary driver of the observed increase in small business borrower-lender distances in the United States in recent years. Using a different data source for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070141
. However, bank customers will only turn to the new business model of web-based financial intermediation if the economic …
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businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their … increase leverage and substitute long-term bank debt with FinTech debt. Our findings suggest that FinTech allows firms to … preserve financial exibility, reduce their bank dependence and exposure to banking shocks. …
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) and its inverted U-shape behavior since the mid-1960s. We build a novel model of endogenous growth and bank intermediation … and introduce imperfect bank competition, bank IT adoption and bank entry, and an occupational choice that determines the …
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We analyze competition in the consumer lending segment between banks and financial technology (or “fintech”) companies (or “fintechs”) as well as giant technology (or “bigtech”) companies (or “bigtechs”) providing alternative credit. We use a database combining banklevel...
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after replacing bank loans. Both FinTech and bank loans are found to benefit the real economy …
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This article focuses on the relationship between Fintech and bank risk-taking behavior. Since Robo-Advisor is one of … medium-sized banks from 2011 to 2016. We found that the development of Fintech has significantly reduced bank risk …-taking level. This result is still valid after the robustness test of replacing the bank's risk-taking index and replacing the …
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This paper studies the effects of bank branches’ access to broadband internet on credit to non-financial firms. We rely …
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