Bank lending, bank capital regulation and efficiency of corporate foreign investment / Diemo Dietrich ; Achim Hauck
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Bank lending, bank capital regulation and efficiency of corporate foreign investment
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527587656
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-373
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Halle : Inst. für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2007
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Abstract
In this paper we study interdependencies between corporate foreign investment and the capital structure of banks. By committing to invest predominantly at home, firms can reduce the credit default risk of their lending banks. Therefore, banks can refinance loans to a larger extent through deposits thereby reducing firms’ effective financing costs. Firms thus have an incentive to allocate resources inefficiently as they then save on financing costs. We argue that imposing minimum capital adequacy for banks can eliminate this incentive by putting a lower bound on financing costs. However, the Basel II framework is shown to miss this potential. -- financial contracting ; multinational corporations ; internal capital markets
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IWH-Diskussionspapiere ; 2007,4 ppn:37244492X