Research shows that bank competition affects general economic and banking-related outcomes, but much less is known … that bank competition significantly reduces borrowers' risk-taking. In response to bank competition, firms invest in more … R&D risk. We also find that the decline in risk-taking is concentrated in operating accruals' volatility. Bank …

This paper investigates the relationship between bank competition and credit procyclicality for 17 OECD countries on … the 1986-2009 period. We account for heterogeneity among countries in terms of bank competition through the use of a … whether credit procyclicality is more important when the degree of bank competition is high. Our findings show that while …

empirical results on the relationship between bank competition and financial stability. The model can be used to define a …A model of imperfectly competitive banks is examined under asymmetric information about borrower quality. Greater bank … competition and a lower risk-free rate raise the screening costs of lending, which can result in pooling Nash equilibria with …

financial crises more reliably, and stimulate the build-up of bank capital before a crisis. …

financial frictions and monopolistic competition in goods markets. I then estimate this model for Mexico to explore the policy …

relationship bank, but not to a transaction bank. We show that borrowers self-select to relationship banks depending on whether … their privately observed soft information is positive or negative. Competition affects the investment in learning the …