Syndicated Lending under Asymmetric Creditor Information

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_EADE450CA385
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Syndicated Lending under Asymmetric Creditor Information
Périodique
Journal of Development Economics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Banerjee S., Cadot O.
ISSN
0304-3878
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
05/1996
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
49
Numéro
2
Pages
289-306
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This paper explores how asymmetric information about borrower quality among syndicated lenders alters the incentive to refinance illiquid borrowers. The authors use a model in which lenders enter the market sequentially in two rounds of lending. Between the two rounds, a shock separates borrowers into good ones and bad ones, and early entrants acquire information about individual borrower type, while late entrants know only the distribution of borrower types. The asymmetric information structure gives rise to both signalling and screening issues. It is shown that self-selecting contracts do not exist and that there is always pooling Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium in which late entrants lend to both good and bad types, without borrower type being exposed before final clearing at the terminal time. Based on this framework, the authors argue that prior to the 1982 international debt crisis, it was possible for banks with heavy exposure to troubled debtors to attract rational newcomers in syndicated loans which were, with positive probability, bailout loans.
Mots-clé
sovereign lending, adverse selection, signalling
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