Negar Mohammadi Jazi

Negar Mohammadi Jazi

Pronounced neh-GAR (rhymes with "car")

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. My research is in industrial organization and financial intermediation.

My CV is here, and you can contact me at n.mohammadi-jazi@lse.ac.uk.

Fields: Industrial Organization, Financial Intermediation, Banking

References

Alessandro Gavazza
London School of Economics
Daniel Paravisini
London School of Economics
Tarun Ramadorai
London School of Economics

Research

Asymmetric Information and Capital Regulation in SME Lending: A Structural Model of Bank and Non-Bank Competition

Job Market Paper. Joint with Felipe Netto (Bank of England).
[ | Draft]

We develop and estimate a structural model of competition between banks and non-banks in the UK unsecured SME lending market under asymmetric information. Because risk-based capital regulation applies exclusively to banks, it ties a bank's loan capital charges directly to its internal risk assessment, creating a buffer-dependent shadow cost that enters bank loan prices. We document a novel empirical pattern in SME credit supply: bank lending behavior shifts sharply at loan-size caps corresponding to application channels, transitioning from automated online screening on small loans to human-mediated evaluation on large ones, whereas non-bank lenders exhibit no such channel segmentation. Combining loan-level originations with confidential supervisory data, we estimate lender-specific cost structures and screening precisions, allowing bank precision to vary across application channels. We find that banks screen less precisely than non-banks on smaller online loans, but overcome this disadvantage on larger loans routed through relationship managers. Counterfactual policy simulations show that tightening minimum capital requirements by 2 percentage points increases the average bank-originated loan rate by roughly 83 basis points and reduces the bank share of originations by 7.6 percentage points.

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics.

Microeconomics II (EC2A3), undergraduate. Autumn 2024 to 2026.
Microeconomics I (EC1A1, EC1A3), undergraduate. 2022 to 2025.