Arbeitspapier

Agency cost of debt and lending market competition: Is there a relationship?

We address the question of how lending market competition, measured by the bargaining power of banks, affects the agency costs of debt finance.It is shown that intensified lending market competition will lead to lower lending rates and investment return distributions which are shifted towards lower, but less risky returns.Consequently, it follows that increased lending market competition will reduce the agency cost of debt financing.Hence, our analysis does not lend support to the commonly held view that there would be a trade-off between more intensive lending market competition and higher agency costs of debt finance.

ISBN
951-686-673-5
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Bank of Finland Discussion Papers ; No. 12/2000

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Koskela, Erkki
Stenbacka, Rune
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bank of Finland
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2000

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Koskela, Erkki
  • Stenbacka, Rune
  • Bank of Finland

Time of origin

  • 2000

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