Debt Contracts with ex-ante and ex-post Asymmetric Information: An Example

Guillaume Carlier and Ludovic Renou
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Guillaume Carlier: Universite Paris IX-Dauphine

No 2005-03, Adelaide Economics Working Papers from Adelaide University, School of Economics

Abstract: We consider a simple model of lending and borrowing combining two informational problems: adverse selection and costly state verification. Our analysis highlights the interaction between these two informational problems. We notably show that the higher the monitoring cost, the less discriminating the optimal menu of contracts is.

Keywords: debt contracts; diversity of opinions; screening; costly monitoring; pooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D8 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2005
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