This paper extends Ghatak (1999)'s base model of group lending with asymmetric information by allowing individuals to differ both in their exogenous risk type and in their endogenous effort level. We find that joint liability leads to positive assortative matching in both a non-cooperative and a...

The paper shows that peer information which banks collected from previous lending plays a role in current loan pricing. I construct peer information at the bank-firm level and find that firms obtain lower loan rates when borrowing from banks that lent to more similar peers in recent periods. The...