The Impacts of "Shock Therapy" on Large and Small Clients: Experiences from Two Large Bank Failures in Japan

Shin-ichi Fukuda (), 慎一 福田, シンイチ フクダ, Satoshi Koibuchi, 賢 鯉渕 and サトシ コイブチ

No 2006-8, CEI Working Paper Series from Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: A "shock therapy" might have different impacts between large and small firms. In this paper, we focus on the clients of two large failed Japanese banks - the Long-term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) and the Nippon Credit Bank (NCB). We first show that subsequent events after the bank failures allowed the new LTCB to adopt a "shock therapy" but kept the new NCB to face "soft budget constraints". We then show that the different therapies made performances of these two banks' customers very different. Under the shock therapy, large firms showed significant recovery of their profits but small firms did not. In contrast, under the soft budget constraints, large firms did not show recovery and small firms experienced significant decline in their profits when the new bank terminated the banking relationship.

Keywords: bank failure; shock therapy; soft budget constraints; banking relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G21 G33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006-10
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Note: September 27, 2006
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