Multinational Lending Retrenchment after the Global Financial Crisis: The Impact of Policy Interventions

Miriam Goetz ()
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Miriam Goetz: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich)

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2024, vol. 66, issue 1, No 3, 75 pages

Abstract: Abstract Did policy interventions contribute to the gradual segmentation of lending markets starting with the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis? We investigate this question in an international Cournot duopoly model with equity constraints. Two symmetric multinational banks compete for corporate lending via local affiliates in two separate national lending markets. Their credit risk in each market is determined by their choice of monitoring effort, which is more costly for foreign lending. Under a binding equity constraint, our model predicts the following: Shocks to bank equity, regulatory standards and monetary policy, such as occurred during and after the crisis, increase the lending home bias of multinational banks. We interpret this retrenchment as a flight to informationally closer or better understood lending. Our results under a non-binding equity constraint are largely identical.

Keywords: Financial integration; Banking regulation; Multinational banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 F36 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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