Abstract
We construct a model of the credit market where financial contracting is subject to costly state verification and moral hazard. The economy's aggregate activity and its equilibrium lending mechanism are determined jointly. We analyze how changes in the model's exogenous variables, including the returns of the economy's investment projects and the supply of loans, affect the economy's aggregate output and the types of the credit through which investment is funded.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 631-651 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | International Economic Review |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2010 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Economics and Econometrics