Studies on loan rate strategies under relationship banking

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I analyzed strategic aspect of loan rate setting by Japanese banks in this study. Using data of loan rate and other variables related to credit risk of small and medium firms. I estimated accuracy of unobservable signal of credit risk. I found an empirical result showing no strategic aspect of bank loan competition predicted by the game theoretic model. Thus, I concluded that asymmetric information had no significant influence in the bank loan market.