impact of bank credit supply frictions on firm performance. I exploit differences in the composition of banks' liabilities … structure during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 as a source of exogenous variation in the availability of bank credit to … nonfinancial firms, in order to identify the causal relationship between bank credit supply and firm performance, measured by firms …

effect of diversification on the cost of a bank loan is channeled primarily through coinsurance in investment opportunities …

We compare the performance of unsecured personal installment loans made by traditional bank lenders with that of … statistical noise. In 2013 and 2016, the largest bank lenders experienced the highest ratio of nonperformance, the highest … inherent credit risk, rather than by lending inefficiency. LendingClub’s performance was similar to small bank lenders as of …

Using 2013 and 2016 data, we compare the performance of unsecured consumer loans made by U.S. bank holding companies to … ratio, adjusted for statistical noise, and the minimum ratio gauges lending inefficiency. In 2013 and 2016, the largest bank … similar to the high average efficiency of the largest bank lenders - a conclusion that may not be applicable to other fintech …

, a minimum ratio that represents best-practice lending given the volume and composition of a bank's loans, the average … concentration; and, second, a ratio, the difference between the bank's observed ratio of nonperforming loans and the best …-practice minimum ratio, that represents the bank's proficiency at loan making. The best-practice ratio of nonperforming loans, the …

: first, a minimum ratio that represents best-practice lending given the volume and composition of a bank's loans, the average … concentration; second, a ratio, the difference between the bank's observed ratio of nonperforming loans, adjusted for statistical … noise, and the best-practice minimum ratio, that represents the bank's proficiency at loan making; third, a statistical …

have important managerial implications for bank managers and policymakers …