Flight to Quality or to Captivity Information and Credit Allocation

Superior information exchanged over the course of lending relationships generates bank-client specificities to the extent that such information cannot be communicated credibly to outsiders. Consequently, banks obtain higher profits from more captured borrowers than from borrowers with financing alte...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Other Authors: Marquez, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2001
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02598nmm a2200589 u 4500
001 EB000929795
003 EBX01000000000000000723391
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150128 ||| eng
020 |a 9781451843842 
100 1 |a Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni 
245 0 0 |a Flight to Quality or to Captivity  |b Information and Credit Allocation  |c Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Robert Marquez 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2001 
300 |a 25 pages 
651 4 |a Japan 
653 |a Loans 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Bank credit 
653 |a Money 
653 |a Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy 
653 |a Financial institutions 
653 |a Industries: Financial Services 
653 |a Banks and Banking 
653 |a Monetary economics 
653 |a Mortgages 
653 |a Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis 
653 |a Demand elasticity 
653 |a Banks and banking, Foreign 
653 |a Banks 
653 |a Elasticity 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Credit 
653 |a Foreign banks 
653 |a Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General 
653 |a Money and Monetary Policy 
653 |a Economic Theory 
653 |a Banks and banking 
653 |a Banking 
653 |a Depository Institutions 
653 |a Economic theory 
653 |a Economic theory & philosophy 
653 |a Micro Finance Institutions 
653 |a Economics 
700 1 |a Marquez, Robert 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781451843842.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2001/020/001.2001.issue-020-en.xml?cid=3983-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a Superior information exchanged over the course of lending relationships generates bank-client specificities to the extent that such information cannot be communicated credibly to outsiders. Consequently, banks obtain higher profits from more captured borrowers than from borrowers with financing alternatives. We refer to this as a “flight to captivity” effect. Negative shocks, associated with monetary contractions or foreign entry, cause a reallocation of bank credit away from more transparent borrowers and toward more opaque, more captured borrowers. The paper applies these ideas to the analysis of bank behavior in transition economies after financial liberalization and monetary policy contractions