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dc.titleBank Competition and The Price of Credit: Evidence Using Mexican Loan Level Data
dc.contributor.authorCañón, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorCortés, Edgar
dc.contributor.authorGuerrero, Rodolfo
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2020-07-29T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-07-29T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the relationship between competition measures at the bank level and the price of credit for non-financial firms in Mexico during 2009-2016. Two indicators of competition are constructed: the Lerner indicator and the Boone indicator. Evidence is provided that similar loans provided by banks with higher market power (Lerner indicator) are significantly more expensive: 11 percent higher than the mean interest rate. In addition, that price difference is concentrated in loans given out to microenterprises and small firms, and firms located in the central and southern regions of the country.
dc.format.extent38
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002521
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Bank-Competition-and-The-Price-of-Credit-Evidence-Using-Mexican-Loan-Level-Data.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectLoan Portfolio
dc.subjectFinancial Institution
dc.subjectCredit Market
dc.subjectFinancial Service
dc.subjectInterest Rate
dc.subjectSmall Business Financing
dc.subject.jelcodeG21 - Banks • Depository Institutions • Micro Finance Institutions • Mortgages
dc.subject.jelcodeG10 - General Financial Markets: General
dc.subject.jelcodeL13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
dc.subject.keywordsBanks;Competition;Non-financial firms;Loan interest rate
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01103
idb.operationRG-K1089
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