Intermediation Variety

Jason Roderick Donaldson, Giorgia Piacentino and Anjan Thakor ()

Journal of Finance, 2021, vol. 76, issue 6, 3103-3152

Abstract: We explain why banks and nonbank intermediaries coexist in a model based only on differences in their funding costs. Banks enjoy a low cost of capital due to safety nets and money‐like liabilities. We show that this can actually be a disadvantage: it generates a soft‐budget‐constraint problem that makes it difficult for banks to credibly threaten to withhold additional funding to failed projects. Nonbanks emerge to solve this problem. Their high cost of capital is an advantage: it allows them to commit to terminate funding. Still, nonbanks never take over the entire market, but other coexist with banks in equilibrium.

Date: 2021
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