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information and costly screening is introduced. When information costs are high, the design of contracts under private information …
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This paper studies an economy where agents can spend resources on consuming a private good and on funding a public good. There is asymmetric information regarding agents' relative preference for private versus public good consumption. I show how private good consumption should be coordinated...
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-lending cognition increases with the default probability, as the default probability is small and decreases thereafter. Evidence from a …
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I examine how credit reporting affects where firms access credit and how lenders contract with them. I use within firm-time and lender-time tests that exploit lenders joining a credit bureau and sharing information in a staggered pattern. I find information sharing reduces relationship-switching...
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Empirical evidence suggests that banks often engage in refinancing of intrinsically insolvent debtors instead of writing of their non-performing loans. Such forbearance lending may induce soft budget constraints for the debtors, as it diminishes their incentives to thwart default. This paper...
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Market distress can be the catalyst of a deleveraging wave, as in the 2007/08 financial crisis. This paper demonstrates how market distress and deleveraging can fuel each other in the presence of adverse selection problems in asset markets. At the core of the detrimental feedback loop is agents'...
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We analyze competitive credit markets with asymmetric information in which borrowers seek financing for either positive or negative net present value projects. The striking result is that there always exists an equilibrium where investment is efficient, while competitive lenders make strictly...
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This paper studies the effects of redistributive taxation in credit markets with adverse selection and shows that there exists a range of taxes that creates Pareto improvement relative to the (zero-tax) market allocation by increasing aggregate investment. For sufficiently high taxes, an...
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This paper analyzes a credit market that includes a costly, universal and imperfect screening technology with both type … I and type II errors and borrower self-selection. Universal screening is necessary because there are fraudulent … consumer lending conditions. Contrary to the results in previous models with random screening, the combination of universal …
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self-propagatory and adversely affect the supply of credit. We propose a unifying theory that models the interplay between …
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