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- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.a03464...
- halshs: halshs-00754511
- doi: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00442.x
- PRODINRA: 316649
- WOS: 000295209200008
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Keywords
Search Debt contract Asymmetric information Debt overhang Strategic complementarity Multiple equilibria D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information • Mechanism Design D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty/D.D8.D83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness G - Financial Economics/G.G2 - Financial Institutions and Services/G.G2.G21 - Banks • Depository Institutions • Micro Finance Institutions • MortgagesSimilar subjects
Borrowing Lending Loans for consumption IndebtednessCite this document
Christophe Chamley et al., « From Search to Match: When Loan Contracts Are Too Long », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00442.x
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Abstract
A model of lending is presented where loans are established in matches between banks (lenders) and entrepreneurs (borrowers) who meet in a search process. Projects turn out randomly a quick payoff or a long-term payoff that requires a rollover of the loan. The model generates, under proper parameter conditions, two steady states without or with rollover, and rollover is socially inefficient. Under imperfect information, the standard debt contract is privately efficient. However, it extends the domains of equilibria with socially inefficient rollover. The global dynamics displays a continuum of equilibrium paths that each exhibits sudden discontinuities--crises--in which the mass of outstanding loans is reduced by a quantum amount of terminations. Crises have a cleansing effect.
