Bank competition, financial stability and welfare: does the objective function of competitors matter?

Óscar Ramón Ramos Gutiérrez & Mónica López-Puertas

Annals of Finance2025https://doi.org/10.1007/s10436-025-00465-warticle
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Abstract

This paper investigates the implications for financial stability, social welfare, risk-taking incentives and expected profits of competition between banks that differ in their respective objective function. We differentiate between commercial banks (i.e., shareholders’ profit-maximizing banks) and stakeholder banks (i.e., stakeholders’ welfare-maximizing banks), showing that: (1) The presence of stakeholder banks increases systemic financial stability and social welfare. (2) Stakeholder banks are less risk-inclined and obtain a higher market share than commercial banks. (3) Any bank chooses a riskier portfolio and is less profitable when competing against a stakeholder bank compared to competing against a commercial bank. Our theoretical findings are consistent with the existing empirical evidence and yield important policy implications and new empirically testable predictions.

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@article{óscar2025,
  title        = {{Bank competition, financial stability and welfare: does the objective function of competitors matter?}},
  author       = {Óscar Ramón Ramos Gutiérrez & Mónica López-Puertas},
  journal      = {Annals of Finance},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10436-025-00465-w},
}

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