Multiple Avenues of Intermediation, Corporate Finance and Financial Stability
August 1, 2001
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Summary
Using data from the US, UK, Japan and Canada, this paper provides evidence on the benefits to an economy from "multiple avenues of intermediation". The overall conclusion is that the existence of active securities markets alongside banks is indeed beneficial to the stability of corporate financing, both during cyclical downturns and during banking and securities market crises. The benefit from multiple avenues are greater, the more comparable the size of securities market and intermediated financing, as well as the larger the proportion of companies able to access both loan and securities markets. The analysis raises a number of policy issues and research topics for further investigation.
Subject: Bank credit, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Loans, Money, Securities, Securities markets
Keywords: adverse selection, Bank credit, bank lending, corporate finance, Credit, credit market, debt-securities financing, debt-securities flow, debt-securities issue equation, Europe, Financial markets and the macroeconomy, Global, investment ratio, liquidity crisis, loan substitution, Loans, Securities, securities financing, securities issuance, Securities markets, trade credit, WP
Pages:
52
Volume:
2001
DOI:
Issue:
115
Series:
Working Paper No. 2001/115
Stock No:
WPIEA1152001
ISBN:
9781451853865
ISSN:
1018-5941
