Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18725 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1362
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank-firm relationship and show that the bank's decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it loses the rent from incumbent customers that is due to its informational advantage. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms liquidated.
Subjects: 
credit markets
institutions
bank competition
information sharing
bankruptcy
relationship banking
JEL: 
K10
G33
G21
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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