Pré-Publication, Document De Travail (Working Paper) Année : 2024

Search Frictions in Credit Markets

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Using data on over 3.5 million firm-bank relationships, I document new facts suggesting that search frictions are pervasive in the market for small business loans. Motivated by this evidence, I develop a theory of firm-bank matching where firms incur costs to search for banking partners. The model predicts that a reduction in search frictions increases (i) intercity credit flows and (ii) firm-bank distance. I confirm these predictions by estimating my model on French data, using the staggered roll-out of broadband internet as an instrument.

Using the structurally estimated parameters, I find that internet access reduced the cost of debt for small businesses by 4.9%.

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hal-04888145 , version 1 (15-01-2025)

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Clément Mazet-Sonilhac. Search Frictions in Credit Markets. 2024. ⟨hal-04888145⟩
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