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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Collateral and Asymmetric Information in Lending Markets
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Yushi Peng
  • Vasso Ioannidou
  • Nicola Pavanini
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Financial Economics
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0304-405X
Volume 144
Number 1
Page Range 93 - 121
Date 2022
Abstract Text We study the benefits and costs of collateral requirements in bank lending markets with asymmetric information. We estimate a structural model of firms’ credit demand for secured and unsecured loans, banks’ contract offering and pricing, and firm default using detailed credit registry data in a setting where asymmetric information problems in credit markets are pervasive. We provide evidence that collateral mitigates adverse selection and moral hazard. With counterfactual experiments, we quantify how an adverse shock to collateral values propagates to credit supply, credit allocation, interest rates, default, and bank profits and how the severity of adverse selection influences this propagation.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.12.010
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17568
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