Banking Monopoly and Space: an analysis of agency costs and monitoring of banks in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.54766/rberu.v17i1.975Keywords:
Banking Monopoly, Space, CostAbstract
This article aims to show that banking monopoly increases credit costs due to Brazil’s spatial characteristics. The literature has focused on the effects of monopoly, but space also influences financing conditions. This occurs because spatial dimension creates agency and monitoring costs for credit. Therefore, this research presents the regional distribution of banks and micro and small companies, as well as the indicators of concentration in the banking sector. The results show that monopoly power makes banks risk-averse, creating distance between banks and firms and between headquarters and branches of finacial institutions. Therefore, banking concentration combined with spatial dimension tends to increase credit constraints in Brazil.
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