effect on the profitability of banks' domestic and foreign lending operations. Due to lower inherent information costs, banks …

-regulated, more fragile nonbanks. The bank-to-nonbank shift largely neutralizes total credit and associated consumption effects for …

runs, and face a threat of entry. Higher competition increases deposit rates and bank fragility, resulting in an … intermediate socially optimal level of bank competition. We provide a novel theory of bank opacity. The cost of opacity is more … is to deter entry of competitors, which increases bank charter value. Banks can be excessively opaque, motivating …