Bank competition, risk, and asset allocations / prepared by john H. Boyd, Gianni De Nicolò and Abu M. Jalal.
We study a banking model in which banks invest in a riskless asset and compete in both deposit and risky loan markets. The model predicts that as competition increases, both loans and assets increase; however, the effect on the loans-to-assets ratio is ambiguous. Similarly, as competition increases,...
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