Bar-Isaac, Heski and Cuñat, Vicente 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7504-2801
(2014)
Long-term debt and hidden borrowing.
Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 3 (1-2).
pp. 87-122.
ISSN 2046-9128
Abstract
Borrowers can raise funds from a competitive banking sector that shares information and from opaque hidden lenders. Hidden lenders allow borrowers to conceal poor results, and thereby affect contracts in the banking sector. In equilibrium, borrowers obtain funds from both sectors simultaneously. The lack of transparency generates cross-subsidies between different borrowers who are observationally equivalent to banks and face the same interest rate. As the cost of hidden borrowing falls, an increasing number of borrowers face identical terms; for sufficiently low costs, all borrowers who take loans (which may include inefficient borrowers) use the same bank debt contract.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://rcfs.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Finance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2015 14:15 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 06:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/61626 |
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