Global Banking and Local Markets

33 Pages Posted: 16 Jan 2009

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Pietro Alessandrini

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics

Andrea Presbitero

International Monetary Fund (IMF); Centre for Macroeconomics & Finance Research (CeMaFiR)

Alberto Zazzaro

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics

Date Written: November 23, 2008

Abstract

In the early 1990s, a widely-shared opinion among scholars and practitioners was that the importance of physical proximity between banks and borrowers would be doomed to drastically decrease over time and, put in extreme terms, the end of banking geography would become a real possibility. However, the empirical evidence show an unrelenting importance of local credit markets for small borrowers and local economic development. In the paper, we selectively review the literature on the real effects of bank consolidation and produce new evidence on the role of headquarter-to-branch functional distance on relationship lending.

Keywords: Global Banking, Local Banking Development, Functional Distance

JEL Classification: G21, G34, R12, R51

Suggested Citation

Alessandrini, Pietro and Presbitero, Andrea and Zazzaro, Alberto, Global Banking and Local Markets (November 23, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1328399 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1328399

Pietro Alessandrini

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics ( email )

Piazzale Martelli, 8
60121 Ancona
Italy

Andrea Presbitero (Contact Author)

International Monetary Fund (IMF) ( email )

700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20431
United States

Centre for Macroeconomics & Finance Research (CeMaFiR) ( email )

Piazza Mirabello 2
Milan, 20100
Italy

Alberto Zazzaro

Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics ( email )

Piazzale Martelli, 8
60121 Ancona
Italy

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