Borrower versus bank channels in lending: Experimental- and administrative-based evidence

Valentina Michelangeli, Jose-Luis Peydro and Enrico Sette

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: We identify the relative importance for bank lending of borrower (demand-side) versus bank (supply-side) factors. We submit thousands of fictitious mortgage applications, changing one borrower-level factor at time, to the major Italian online mortgage platform. Each application goes to all banks. Borrower and bank factors are equally strong in causing and explaining loan acceptance. For pricing, borrower factors are instead stronger. Moreover, banks supplying less credit accept riskier borrowers. Exploiting the administrative credit register, there is borrower-lender assortative matching, and the bank-level strength measure estimated on the experimental data is associated to credit supply and risk-taking to real firms.

Keywords: credit; banks; mortgages; SMEs; risk-taking. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 G21 G51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12
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Working Paper: Borrower versus Ban Channels in Lending: Experimental- and Administrative-Based Evidence (2021)
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