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The Effects of Competition in Consumer Credit Markets

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  • Stefan Gissler
  • Rodney Ramcharan
  • Edison Yu
  • Philip Strahan

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This paper finds that banks and nonbanks respond differently to increased competition in consumer credit markets. Increased competition and a greater threat of failure induces banks to specialize in relationship business lending, and surviving banks are more profitable. However, nonbanks change their credit policy when faced with more competition and expand credit to riskier borrowers at the extensive margin, resulting in higher default rates. These results show how the effects of competition depend on the form of intermediation. They also suggest that increased competition can cause credit risk to migrate outside the traditional supervisory umbrella.

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  • Stefan Gissler & Rodney Ramcharan & Edison Yu & Philip Strahan, 2020. "The Effects of Competition in Consumer Credit Markets," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 33(11), pages 5378-5415.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:33:y:2020:i:11:p:5378-5415.
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design

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