consistent with this central implication of the private-information models and support the empirical importance of this theory. …

consistent with this central implication of the private-information models and support the empirical importance of this theory …

The widespread evidence of multiple bank lending relationships in credit markets suggests that firms are interested in …

perapplicant fixed costs in screening. We then demonstrate that our theory fits the data better than the main alternative theory … already in the literature, which supposes cutoff rules are exogenously used by securitizers. Furthermore, we use our theory to …

research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … model that rationalizes such an origination rule of thumb. Under this alternative theory, jumps in default are not evidence … securitization rule-of-thumb theory but consistent with the origination rule-of-thumb theory. There are jumps in the number of loans …