Global Banking: Endogenous Competition and Risk Taking

Ester Faia and Gianmarco Ottaviano

No 11940, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Direct involvement of global banks in local retail activities through a “bricks and mortar†business model can reduce risk-taking by promoting local competition. We develop this argument through a dynamic model in which multinational banks may choose to operate in different imperfectly competitive national markets through the horizontal expansion of their deposit and loan activities. In making this choice, banks compare charter values and entry barriers. When foreign operations entail additional monitoring costs, multinational banks face predatory lending incentives that are stronger the smaller their market shares are. The model generates predictions that are consistent with the “bricks and mortar†argument as long as the expansionary impact of competition on multinational banks’ aggregate future discounted profits through larger scale is strong enough to offset its parallel contractionary impact through lower loan-deposit return margin. This effect is stronger with perfectly than imperfectly correlated loans’ risk, with exogenous than endogenous exit, with horizontal than vertical expansion (cross-border lending).

Keywords: Global bank; Oligopoly; Oligopsony; Endogenous risk taking; Expectation of rents extraction; Appetite for leverage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G32 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban and nep-com
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP11940 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
Journal Article: Global banking: Endogenous competition and risk taking (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11940

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP11940

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().