Quality of Institutions, Credit Markets and Bankruptcy

Christa Hainz

No 1362, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank-firm relationship and show that the bank’s decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it loses the rent from incumbent customers that is due to its informational advantage. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms liquidated.

Keywords: credit markets; institutions; bank competition; information sharing; bankruptcy; relationship banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 G21 G33 K10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-fin, nep-law and nep-mfd
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