Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7356040 Journal of Accounting and Economics 2017 17 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper discusses evidence that large, diversified banks lend using `hard' information measures, such as audited financial statements. Structural changes toward larger and more diversified banks may have left some segments of credit markets - those depending on investment in `soft' information - under-served. These trends accelerated following the Financial Crisis. At the same time, bank lending to small businesses, which typically can only supply soft information, has been slow to recover from the Crisis. These trends are worrying because entry of focused banks, the normal market mechanism to counteract such a trend, has been absent since the Crisis.
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