Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk : A General Equilibrium Exposition /

We study a simple general equilibrium model in which investment in a risky technology is subject to moral hazard and banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank capital ratios, more efficient production plans and Pareto-rank...

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1. Verfasser: De Nicolo, Gianni
Weitere Verfasser: Lucchetta, Marcella
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/105
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF