Do bad borrowers hurt good borrowers? A model of biased banking competition

Portuguese Economic Journal - Tập 18 - Trang 5-17 - 2018
David Peón1, Manel Antelo2
1Department of Business, University of Coruna, A Coruña, Spain
2Department of Economics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Tóm tắt

This paper explores a two-bank model in which, first, one bank correctly estimates the probability of low-quality loan repayment while the other overestimates it, and second, both banks have identical convex costs when granting loans. In this context of optimistically biased banking competition, we show how the unbiased bank follows the biased competitor as long as the bias of the latter is not too large. This would favour bad borrowers, who get better credit conditions at the expense of good borrowers. As a consequence, the presence of a biased bank increases welfare as long as the expected default rate is sufficiently high. Contrariwise, in subprime markets, biased banking competition would be socially harmful.

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