We establish that a monopoly bank never uses collateral as a screening device. A pooling equilibrium always exists in … which all borrowers pay the same interest rate and put zero collateral. Absence of screening leads to socially inefficient …

externality to an informed winner, an increase in the number of banks in the market can reduce banks' screening probability …

Coase Theorem to price this scarce resource. In this market, screening mechanisms shift the burden of message classification …

scholars are denied visa mistakenly, the intensity of visa screening is higher than its efficient level, but the number of …

screening, a pure strategy equilibrium exists where banks optimally set interest rates at the same level as their competitors … banks have zero screening costs. In our set up we show that interest rate on loans are largely independent of marginal costs … analysis to the case where banks have differing screening abilities.  …

Abstract Public policies promoting ‘screening’ for a cancer, while directly bearing on the cancer’s early diagnosis and …

Abstract Randomized controlled trials have been the mainstay of high-level evidence for or against cancer screening … screening, costs, utilities, the political risk of inaction, the societal tolerance to risk, healthcare providers’ preferences … cancer screening.  …