We study the effects of asymmetric information and imperfect competition in the market for small business lines of … credit. We estimate a structural model of credit demand, loan use, pricing, and firm default using matched firm-bank data …

contribution is two-fold. First, we expand the theory of granularity to encompass the Bertrand competition frequently used in … right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …

standards change in reaction to two specific macroeconomic developments, namely an increase in bank funding costs and a sudden …. Insofar, we provide evidence of heterogeneity in the bank lending channel, depending on the situation of the lenders and the …

, we show that the economic impact of changes in bank capital requirements depends on the state of the macro …, the impact on bank loan supply works through a ”pricing channel” which is small: around 0.1% less loans for a 1pp increase …

estimation. The analysis allows to distinguish between rents that accrue due to single bank lending, rents that accrue due to … relationship lending, and rents that accrue due to the elimination of competition among multiple lenders. We find the relationship … against hold-up. -- Banking Competition ; Coordination ; Distress ; Credit Spread ; Hold-up …

(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then …

loans, we utilize a new indexation mechanism exploiting a detailed bank-level dataset for the period January 2007-April 2020 … demonstrated by dispersion indices. Our empirical design also entails the construction of competition indicators for aggregated and … competition are related to the lower level of lending rate dispersion in housing and vehicle segments in a statistically …