screened and excessive in good times, and is inefficiently rationed during recessions. More bank competition exacerbates the …

conduct investigations in the search of qualified loan borrowers. The model assumes that the domestic bank has a cost … advantage in evaluating a borrower’s credit quality compared to the competing foreign bank. Despite the cost heterogeneity, an … equilibrium exists in which two such banks coexist in the market. Specifically, the information cost advantaged bank orchestrates …

We address the question of how lending market competition, measured by the bargaining power of banks, affects the … agency costs of debt finance. It is shown that intensified lending market competition will lead to lower lending rates and … lending market competition will reduce the agency cost of debt financing. Hence, our analysis does not lend support to the …

This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence … interest rates as the bank-firm relationship duration increases. Both results are stronger for micro and small firms than for …

The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …-firm relationship and show that the bank's decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank gets a payoff if a …

This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both … three questions: what are the effects of competition on banks' monitoring incentives? Does competition hurt banks' stability …? What can be devices to correct potential negative effects of competition vis à vis financial stability? We find that …