Has Competition in the Japanese Banking Sector Improved?



companies in Japan. Therefore, this deregulation did not have a significant effect on the
banking sector, contrary to the case for the securities industry.

3. Model

We assume that a bank i raises funds di from depositors and invests it to loans qi and

government bonds bi . Thus, the profit of the bank i at time t is:

πi,t=Pt(Qt)qi,t+rib,tbi,t-ri,dtdi,t-Ci,t(qi,t,di,t),                           (1)

n

where Pt(Qt) is the inverse demand function for loans, Qtqi,t , n is the
i=1

number of banks, rib,t is the yields for bonds, ri,dt is the deposit interest rate, and

Ci,t(qi,t, di,t) stands for the operating cost function. The bank’s problem is:

Max     πi,t s.t. bi,t + qi,t = di,t .                       (2)

{bi,t ,qi,t , di,t }

The first order conditions of the profit maximization are:

1           C

Pt (1 — θi,t ) = rt +      ,                          (3)

ηt                ∂qi ,t

and

b dCit

r — — rt--= = 0                                 (4)

i, t i, t ∂dit      ’                                           '>

i,t

PtQt                                                          qi t

where η ≡ —t—— is the market demand elasticity for loans, S , ≡ — is the

Qt Pt                                            y             i i,t Qt

Qt

market share of bank ι in loans, and θ t = ~^^Si t. Note that θ t = 0 for perfect
i,t                              i,t                                                          i,t

qi,t



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