Essays is bank competition and credit policy

This thesis estimates the eect of competition in the financial sector using both individual level data and economic theory, and explores the role of credit policy in mitigating potential adverse effects of imperfect competition. The first essay uses heterogeneous exposure to large bank mergers to estimate the eect of bank competition on both financial and real variables in local Brazilian markets. Using detailed administrative data on loans and firms, we employ a difference-in-differences empirical strategy to identify the causal eect of bank competition. Following M&A episodes, spreads increase and there is persistently less lending in exposed markets. We also find that bank competition reduces employment. We develop a tractable model of heterogeneous firms and concentration in the banking sector and show that the observed effects in the data and predicted by the model are consistent.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Passarelli Giroud Joaquim, Gustavo.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Robert M. Townsend and Alp Simsek.

• Economics.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127034

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127034