13
Nov
2017
10:30
- 12:00
IWH Research Seminar
Common Lenders and Product Market Competition
Who
Farzad Saidi
(Stockholm School of Economics)
Where
IWH conference room
This paper explores how bank concentration affects product market competition of non-financial firms. We argue, and provide evidence, that sharing common lenders lowers the cost of debt financing. This is because common lenders internalize potential adverse effects of higher loan rates on the product market behavior of their borrowers’ competitors.