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Mixed signals : investment distortions with adverse selection

Darst, R. Matthew; Refayet, Ehraz - 2019

We study how adverse selection distorts equilibrium investment allocations in a Walrasian credit market with two …-sided heterogeneity. Representative investor and partial equilibrium economies are special cases where investment allocations are … trade and investment allocations below perfect information levels. The degree of heterogeneity between informed agents' type …

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Moral Hazard and Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Anonymous Trading

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

A "folk theorem" originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibria area always or "generically" inefficient (unless contracts directly specify consumption levels as in Prescott and Townsend, thus bypassing trading in anonymous markets). This paper...

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Chapter 10. Recursive Contracts and Endogenously Incomplete Markets

Golosov, M.; Tsyvinski, A.; Werquin, N. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 725-841). 2016

In this chapter we study dynamic incentive models in which risk sharing is endogenously limited by the presence of informational or enforcement frictions. We comprehensively overview one of the most important tools for the analysis such problems—the theory of recursive contracts. Recursive...

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Enduring Relationships in an Economy with Capital and Private Information

Khan, Aubhik; Popov, Latchezar; Ravikumar, B. - 2020

We study efficient risk sharing in a model where agents operate linear production technologies with private information about idiosyncratic productivity. Capital is the sole factor of production, and accumulable. We establish a time-invariant, one-to-one mapping between the capital allocated to...

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Moldy Lemons and Market Shutdowns

Chang, Jin-Wook; Darst, Matthew - 2022

This paper studies competitive market shutdowns due to adverse selection, where sellers post nonexclusive menus of contracts. We first show that the presence of the worst type of agents (moldy lemons) causes markets to fail only if their mass is sufficiently large. We then show that a small mass...

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Why does the Cost of Credit Intermediation Increase for Small Firms Relative to Large Firms during Recessions? A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis.

Ramirez, Miguel; Pandey, Aalok - Department of Economics, Trinity College - 2012

. These firms are forced to cut back on their investment and consumption spending which, in turn, exacerbates the recession …

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Unconventional credit policy in an economy under zero lower bound

Pozo, Jorge; Rojas, Youel - 2021

In this paper we develop a simple two-period model that reconciles credit demand and supply frictions. In this stylized but realistic model credit and deposit markets are interlinked and credit demand and credit supply frictions amplify each other in such a way that produces in equilibrium very...

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Why bank money creation?

Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022

We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...

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Insurance and asymmetric information in wage contracts : evidence from an online experiment

Herbst, Daniel - 2025

For workers facing uncertain output, fixed-wage contracts provide implicit insurance compared to self-employment or performance-based pay. But like any insurance product, these contracts are prone to market distortions through moral hazard and adverse selection. Using a model of wage contracts...

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Asymmetric information and the securitization of SME loans

Albertazzi, Ugo; Bottero, Margherita; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2021

Using all loans granted to firms recorded in the Italian credit register, we estimate correlations between risk-transfer and default probabilities to gauge the severity of informational asymmetries in the loan securitization market. First, the analysis confirms the presence of information...

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