We develop a model of spatial competition to explore how changes in the market structure affect the incentives of banks to screen loan applicants. We take a post-crisis perspective that treats the number of banks as exogenous. Our findings reveal that the relaxation of competition distorts...

Short sellers actively exploit trading opportunities from insider sales. We argue that, in response to concern about potential order flow information leakage, insiders strategically disguise their order flows to escape trading competition. Our model predicts that, when short sellers are...

The study focuses on the causes and consequences of information asymmetry. Using a sample of 180 Malaysian manufacturing firms, the findings show that insiders and industrial competition contribute to the problem of information asymmetry. The presence of large shareholders as insiders in low...