Can Relationship Banking Survive Competition?

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Finance
Year: 2000
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Pages: 679-713

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

How will banks evolve as competition increases from other banks and from the capital market? Will banks become more like capital market underwriters and offer passive transaction loans or return to their roots as relationship lending experts? These are the questions we address. Our key result is that as interbank competition increases, banks make more relationship loans, but each has lower added value for borrowers. Capital market competition reduces relationship lending (and bank lending shrinks), but each relationship loan has greater added value for borrowers. In both cases, welfare increases for some borrowers but not necessarily for all.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:jfinan:v:55:y:2000:i:2:p:679-713
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-24