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What's different about banks?☆

Eugene F. Fama
- 01 Jan 1985 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 1, pp 29-39
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The reserve tax on CD's is borne by bank borrowers as discussed by the authors, and it is assumed that bank borrowers are willing to pay higher interest rates than those on other securities of equivalent risk.
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This article is published in Journal of Monetary Economics.The article was published on 1985-01-01. It has received 2364 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interest rate & Certificate of deposit.

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Financial Dependence and Growth

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The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data

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INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS: The Choice between Informed and Arm's-length Debt

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Asymmetric Information, Bank Lending, and Implicit Contracts: A Stylized Model of Customer Relationships

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic theory of "customer relationships" in bank loan markets is presented, based on a traditional view of bank lending behavior, first spelled out by Hodgman and Kane and Malkiel (1965) and later elaborated upon by Wood (1975).
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Embeddedness in the making of financial capital : How social relations and networks benefit firms seeking financing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how social embeddedness affects an organization's acquisition and cost of financial capital in middle-market banking and developed a framework to explain how embeddedness can influence which firms get capital and at what cost.
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