Foreign entry and bank competition

Rajdeep Sengupta

No 2006-043, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: Foreign entry and bank competition are modeled as the interaction between asymmetrically informed principals: the entrant uses collateral as a screening device to contest the incumbent's informational advantage. Both better information ex ante and stronger legal protection ex post are shown to facilitate the entry of low-cost outside competitors into credit markets. The entrant's success in gaining borrowers of higher quality by offering cheaper loans increases with its efficiency (cost) advantage. This paper accounts for evidence suggesting that foreign banks tend to lend more to large firms thereby neglecting small and medium enterprises. The results also explain why this observed \"bias\" is stronger in emerging markets.

Keywords: Bank competition; Credit control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published in Journal of Financial Economics, May 2007, 84(2), pp. 502-28

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