The efficiency implications of financial conglomeration

Ville Mälkönen

No 17/2004, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers from Bank of Finland

Abstract: This paper studies the competitive and efficiency implications of financial conglomeration driven by cost-efficiency gains in monitoring credit and insurance customers.The analysis shows that conglomeration is conducive to tougher competition in the credit market and increases profit in insurance.The aggregate profit in the financial sector does not increase, because the conglomerates pass the cost-efficiency gains on to the borrowers in full.More competitive market for financial services also reduces the aggregate risk in the financial markets, indicating that capital requirements in both sectors should be lower in the presence of financial conglomerates

Keywords: financial conglomerates; banking; insurance; capital regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G22 G38 L40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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