Boadway, Robin; Marceau, Nicolas; Marchand, Maurice; … - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1998
We examine how three sources of asymmetric information affect the supply of entrepreneurs and unemployment. In the first case, banks cannot observe entrepreneurs' risk of failure so ration credit. This increases the number of entrepreneurs and the level of unemployment. In the second case, firms...