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Cambridge Finance Workshop Series are usually held on Thursdays during term time. The workshops are an opportunity for those working in finance to present their latest results or papers.

Dr Daniel Paravisini is Reader in Finance (Tenured Associate Professor), London School of Economics.

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Workshop Title: Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending

We develop an empirical approach for identifying comparative advantages in bank lending. Using matched credit-export data from Peru, we first uncover patterns of bank specialization by export market: every country has a subset of banks with an abnormally large loan portfolio exposure to its exports. Using outliers to measure specialization, we use a revealed preference approach to show that bank specialization reflects a comparative advantage in lending. We show, in specifications that saturate all firm-time and bank-time variation, that firms that expand exports to a destination market tend to expand borrowing disproportionately more from banks specialized in that destination market. Bank comparative advantages increase with bank size in the cross section, and in the time series after mergers. Our results challenge the perceived view that, outside relationship lending, banks are perfectly substitutable sources of funding.

Paper: Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending

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Thursday, 16 October, 2014 - 17:00 to 18:00
Contact name: 
Kat Ndrepepaj
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Contact phone: 
01223768129
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Event location: 
Barbara White Room, Newnham College
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