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This paper addresses the topic regarding the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both deposit and loan markets and where banks can use monitoring technology to control entrepreneurs' behavior, we investigate three questions: what are the effects of...
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model, enhancing transparency above a certain level may lead to the inefficient liquidation of a bank. The reason lies in … the downside risk. Accordingly, depositors will not take into account possible future upside gains of the bank when … inefficient bank runs …
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The question of whether more competition among banks increases relationship banking, which is predicted to improve credit availability for informationally opaque firms in theory, is a controversial issue in the banking literature. By using firm-level survey data in Japan, this paper provides...
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The effects of bank competition and institutions on credit markets are usually studied separately although both factors … are interdependent. We study the effect of bank competition on the choice of contracts (screening versus collateralized … effects of bank competition on collateralization, access to finance, and social welfare depend on the institutional …
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bank behavior. Using OLS, propensity score matching, and instrumental variable regressions, we examine why retention deals …
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We empirically examine the impact of bank consolidation on bank acquisition of soft information about borrowers. Using …
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Banks finance newly-founded firms extensively despite severe asymmetric information. Whereas the demand for credit usually follows from entrepreneurs' lack of liquidity, we ask why and how banks supply credit to new firms of unknown value. We propose a model of credit allocation in which, due to...
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We investigate the effect of regulatory enforcement actions on banks' reputation by estimating the effect of non-compliance with laws and regulations among lead arrangers on the structure of syndicated loans. Consistent with a regulatory reputational stigma, a punished lead arranger increases...
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loan applicants are required to pay to reach the bank of their interest shrinks with respect to the degree of competition …
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This paper investigates the market microstructure effects on client firms of equity holdings by relationship banks, i.e., lenders and/or underwriters, prior to the 2008 financial crisis. It intends to shed light on the need for “the Volcker Rule.” We find that banks' equity holdings of...
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