banking industry, an indicator on the degree of competition, influences the number of industries exported. In order to … consider the impact of competition in the banking industry on export diversification at different levels of financial … further split the samples of countries on the basis of the median levels of lending and the deposit rate spread, foreign bank …

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 …