Asymmetric Information and the Market Structure of the Banking Industry /

The paper analyzes the effects of informational asymmetries on the market structure of the banking industry in a multi-period model of spatial competition. All lenders face uncertainty with regard to borrowers' creditworthiness, but, in the process of lending, incumbent banks gather proprietary...

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Autor principal: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/092
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF