Peer-to-Peer Lenders Versus Banks: Substitutes or Complements? (2024)

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Huan Tang

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The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 32, Issue 5, May 2019, Pages 1900–1938, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhy137

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04 April 2019

Abstract

This paper studies whether, in the consumer credit market, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms serve as substitutes for banks or instead as complements. I develop a conceptual framework and derive testable predictions to distinguish between these two possibilities. Using a regulatory change as an exogenous shock to bank credit supply, I find that P2P lending is a substitute for bank lending in terms of serving infra-marginal bank borrowers yet complements bank lending with respect to small loans. These results indicate that the credit expansion resulting from P2P lending likely occurs only among borrowers who already have access to bank credit.

Received June 1, 2017; editorial decision September 15, 2018 by Editor Andrew Karolyi. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

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D14 - Household Saving; Personal Finance E51 - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers G21 - Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages G23 - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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