D’Andrea, Angelo, Pelosi, Marco and Sette, Enrico (2025) When broadband comes to banks: credit supply, market structure, and information acquisition. Journal of the European Economic Association. ISSN 1542-4766 (In Press)
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This paper studies how broadband internet affects bank credit supply to non-financial firms. We rely on loan-level data from the Italian Credit Register and quasi-experimental variation in the diffusion of broadband. Our estimates include firm-time fixed effects to control for the effect of broadband on firm demand. We find that branches in municipalities reached by fast internet increase loan supply and reduce interest rates. Fast internet is used to acquire additional information on borrowers after loan origination, improving monitoring. This, in turn, drives credit expansion through increased branch efficiency, broader geographical reach, and reduced local market concentration.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Finance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| JEL classification: | G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2025 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2025 13:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129720 |
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