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Competition and the risk of bank failure : Breaking with the representative borrower assumption

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We examine the relation between intensity of competition in the loan market and risk of bank failure, in a model with adverse selection. As well established, the presence of the two opposite margin and risk-shifting effects creates conditions for nonmonotonicity: the conventional competition-fragility view may be challenged at high interest rates. These rates may however be too high to be compatible with oligopolistic equilibrium conditions. The challenging competition-stability view has been argued in terms of a representative borrower managing the profitability-safeness trade-off under moral hazard. However, the representative borrower assumption is not innocuous, playing down by construction the margin effect. The paper considers the adverse selection situation where that trade-off is managed by banks facing heterogeneous borrowers, and shows analytically, in the case of a trapezoidal distribution of idiosyncratic and systemic risk factors, that the conventional view is always valid.

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hal-03595060 , version 1 (03-03-2022)

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Rodolphe dos Santos Ferreira, Leonor Modesto. Competition and the risk of bank failure : Breaking with the representative borrower assumption. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2021, 23 (4), pp.622-638. ⟨10.1111/jpet.12509⟩. ⟨hal-03595060⟩
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