Product Market Competition and Collateralized Debt
University of Milan Bicocca Department of Economics, Management and Statistics Working Paper No. 238
31 Pages Posted: 16 Jul 2013
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Product Market Competition and Collateralized Debt
Date Written: March 1, 2013
Abstract
This paper presents a model where bank credit depends upon borrowers' product market structure. We show that a larger number of competitors in the industry may increase credit availability by enhancing the resale value of the collateralized productive assets. We also study how this benefi t of competition is affected by the existence of outsiders willing to bid for the collateralized productive assets of the insiders. Our model encompasses the standard case of Cournot competition either when the default probability goes to zero or when there are multiple outsiders bidding for the productive assets. We test the empirical implications of the theoretical analysis exploiting information on the access to finance of small and medium Italian fi rms and fi nd supportive evidence.
Keywords: collateralized loans, product market competition, productive assets resale value
JEL Classification: D22, L13, G33
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