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Author:Inderst, R.
Mueller, H.M.
Title:A lender-based theory of collateral
Journal:Journal of Financial Economics
2007 : JUN, VOL. 84:3, p. 826-859
Index terms:theories
loans
markets
competition
information
Freeterms:collateral
relationship lending
Language:eng
Abstract:This study deals with an imperfectly competitive loan market a local relationship lender (hereafter as: l-lndr.) has an information advantage vis-a-vis distant transaction lenders. The l-lndr. inefficiently rejects marginally profitable projects due to the transaction lenders' actions. Collateral mitigates the inefficiency by increasing the l-lndr's payoff from precisely those marginally profitable projects. The model predicts among others that, controlling for observable borrower risk, collateralized loans are more likely to default ex-post, which is consistent with the empirical evidence etc.
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