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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The Emergence of Information Sharing in Credit Markets
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Martin Brown
  • Christian Zehnder
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Number No. 317
ISSN 1424-0459
Date 2007
Abstract Text We examine how asymmetric information and competition in the credit market affect voluntary information sharing between lenders. We study an experimental credit market in which information sharing can help lenders to distinguish goodnborrowers from bad ones, because borrowers may exogenously switch locations.nLenders, however, are also engaged in spatial competition, and lose market power by sharing information with close competitors. Our results suggest that more asymmetric information in the credit market increases information sharing behavior significantly. Stronger competition between lenders reduces information sharing, but its impact seems to be only of second order importance.
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