Carlier, Guillaume; Renou, Ludovic - In: Economic Theory 25 (2005) 2, pp. 497-504
In simple models of borrowing and lending with ex-post asymmetric information, Gale and Hellwig (1985) and Williamson (1986) have shown that optimal debt contracts are simple debt contracts where borrowers repay a fixed interest rate whenever possible and lenders seize all the profit when...