Market Concentration in Fintech

P. Dean Corbae, Pablo D'Erasmo and Kuan Liu ()
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Kuan Liu: https://walton.uark.edu/departments/finance/directory/uid/kuanliu/name/Kuan+Liu/

No 23-11, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: This paper discusses concentration in consumer credit markets with a focus on fintech lenders and residential mortgages. We present evidence that shows that concentration among fintech lenders is significantly higher than that for bank lenders and other nonbank lenders. The data also show that the overall concentration in mortgage lending has declined between 2011 and 2019, driven mostly by a reduction in concentration among bank lenders. We present a simple model to show that changes in lender financial technology (interpreted as improvements in quality of loan services) explain more than 50 percent of the increase in fintech market shares and 43 percent of the increase in fintech concentration. This change in concentration in the fintech industry may have important implications for regulatory policy and financial stability.

Keywords: fintech; concentration; mortgage lending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 L1 L5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2023-06-08
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DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2023.11

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