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- Title
Banking and Trading.
- Authors
Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Ratnovski, Lev
- Abstract
We study the interaction between relationship banking and short-term arm's length activities of banks, called trading. We show that a bank can use the franchise value of its relationships to expand the scale of trading, but may allocate too much capital to trading ex post, compromising its ability to build relationships ex ante. This effect is reinforced when trading is used for risk shifting. Overall, combining relationship banking and trading offers benefits under small-scale trading, but distortions may dominate when trading is unbridled. This suggests that trading by banks, while benign historically, might be distortive with deeper financial markets.
- Subjects
BANKING industry; RETAIL franchises; CAPITAL market; FINANCIAL services industry; ARM'S length transactions
- Publication
Review of Finance, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 6, p2219
- ISSN
1572-3097
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rof/rfv069