TY - JOUR AU - Fernandez,Raquel AU - Kaaret,David TI - Bank Size, Reputation, and Debt Renegotiation JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 2704 PY - 1988 Y2 - September 1988 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2704 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2704.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Raquel Fernández Department of Economics New York University 19 West 4th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10012 Tel: 212/998-8908 Fax: 212/995-4186 E-Mail: raquel.fernandez@nyu.edu AB - This paper examines the effect that the coexistence of small and large banks, with different interests in the international market, has on the debt renegotiation process. Making use of a reputational model, we argue that the presence of small banks implies that debtor countries have a harder tine obtaining new money than what they would have absent the small banks. ER -