Bank's Market Power and Firm Access to Capital Markets in Asia

Sunglyong Lee, Youn Seol
2013 Management Science and Financial Engineering  
We investigate the effect of bank's market power on financing constraints of non-financial firms in 11 Asian countries between 1995 and 2009. Using firm-level data we analyze financial constraints with the Euler equation derived from the dynamic investment model. We find that with a highly concentrated banking sector firms which have high market power are less financially constrained. These results are consistent with an information-based hypothesis that more market power increases bank's advantage to produce information on potential borrowers.
doi:10.7737/msfe.2013.19.1.043 fatcat:4lewsziqafec7pjii636ahxd64