TY - JOUR A1 - Laux, Christian A1 - Walz, Uwe T1 - Cross-selling lending and underwriting : scope economies and incentives T2 - Review of finance N2 - We highlight the implications of combining underwriting services and lending for the choice of underwriters and for competition in the underwriting business. We show that cross-selling can increase underwriters’ incentives, and we explain three phenomena: first, that cross-selling is important for universal banks to enter the investment banking business; second, that cross-selling is particularly attractive for highly leveraged borrowers; third, that less-than-market rates are no prerequisite for cross-selling to benefit a bank’s clients. In our model, cross-selling reduces rents in the underwriting business. KW - G21 KW - G24 KW - D49 Y1 - 2009 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6601 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-66906 SN - 1573-692X SN - 1572-3097 N1 - © The Author 2008. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. VL - 13 IS - 2 SP - 341 EP - 367 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -