Asymmetric Information, Credit Rationing, and Economic Growth

Shouyong Shi

Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, vol. 29, issue 3, 665-87

Abstract: This paper shows that asymmetric information in capital goods development can enhance long-run economic growth. This growth-enhancing role occurs when new capital goods are highly productive and high-quality new capital goods are not much more expensive to develop than low-quality capital goods. Under these conditions, asymmetric information induces agents to take high-risk projects whose success creates faster evolution of knowledge and faster economic growth. The popular view that asymmetric information and its induced credit rationing reduce growth can be supported under complementary conditions.

Date: 1996
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