| 英文摘要 |
We employ a linear spatial model to explore how common ownership affects banks’monitoring incentives, social welfare, and capital requirements. Entrepreneurs are uniformly distributed on a linear city and each of them has no resources but one risky project. Two banks are located at the two endpoints and compete for entrepreneurs. They are also endowed with a technology that enables them to monitor borrowers to increase the successful probability of their loan portfolios. Furthermore, the two banks have partial common ownership and thus determine loan rates and monitoring effort simultaneously to maximize the ownership-averaged expected profits. We find that an increase in common ownership induces the banks to increase their loan rates and monitoring effort. Moreover, when the return on the project, if successful, and the social cost of bank default are high, and the monitoring cost is low, an increase in common ownership improves social welfare. An increase in capital requirements then induces the banks to raise their loan rates and monitoring effort; however, an increase in common ownership mitigates the effects from an increase in capital requirements. Lastly, an increase in common ownership reduces optimal capital requirements. |