Estimating the Effect of Hierarchies on Information Use

By José María Liberti, Atif R. Mian. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan (2008, unknown): “See Boot (2000), Ongena and Smith (2000), and Elyasiani and Goldberg (2004), for survey.”
Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence Across Countries and Bank Ownership Types (2009, background): “Finally, studies such as Stein (2002), Mian (2006), and Liberti and Mian (2009) have argued that more centralized and hierarchical organizational structures can have a negative impact on lending to opaque borrowers, such as SMEs.”
Small Bank Comparative Advantages in Alleviating Financial Constraints and Providing Liquidity Insurance over Time (2017, background): “2 Small banks may be superior at handling soft, qualitative information that is difficult to communicate within large, banking organizations with multiple layers of management (Berger and Udell, 2002; Stein, 2002; Liberti and Mian, 2009).”
Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers (2016, unknown): “Liberti and Mian (2009), Agarwal and Hauswald (2010), and Rajan et al. (2013) find that greater hierarchical distance discourages the use of subjective and more abstract information in banks.”
Do banks price discriminate spatially? Evidence from small business lending in local credit markets (2013, unknown): “Existing research documents the importance of banks’ organizational structure and decision making process (e.g., Liberti and Mian 2009).”
The Impact of Incentives and Communication Costs on Information Production and Use: Evidence from Bank Lending: Impact of Incentives and Communication Costs on Information (2015, unknown): “3 Liberti and Mian (2009) explore how hierarchies within one bank affect the use of information in determining credit limits, Mian (2006) shows that domestic banks tend to invest more in relationships, and Liberti (2004) exploits how a change in incentives affects loan officers’ effort to invest in…”
Bargaining power and information in SME lending (2010, background): “The issue also has important implications for firms borrowing from banks and for risk management, including incentive problems inside banks (e.g., Udell 1989; Stein 2002; Scott 2004; Liberti and Mian 2009; Hertzberg et al. 2010).”
What are Borders Made of? An Analysis of Barriers to European Banking Integration (2008, unknown): “In fact, several contributions, both empirical and theoretical (thoroughly reviewed by Cerqueiro et al. 2009: Chapter 4, this volume), show that the organizational structure of a bank impacts on its lending decision, meaning in particular that a large regional bank headquartered at some distance fro”
Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market (2013, unknown): “Distance could indeed matter in communicating soft information to the credit committee (Liberti and Mian, 2009).”
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers (2012, unknown): “Liberti and Mian (2009) show that hierarchical separation between loan officers and their supervisors leads to greater reliance on hard information.”