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Dysfunctional Finance: Positive Shocks and Negative Outcomes

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  • Hoff Karla

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In financial markets with asymmetric information about mean returns, borrowers with different default risks may pay the same rate of interest. If they do, the marginal borrower will have a high-risk, negative-value project. Under some conditions, technological change that increases each entrepreneur's output will attract a new set of negative-value projects. This adverse selection process will erode the ability rents of the inframarginal borrowers. I present an example in which it destroys the market. The results imply that a boom in a sector can lead to a crisis if institutional change to solve the screening problem does not occur.

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  • Hoff Karla, 2010. "Dysfunctional Finance: Positive Shocks and Negative Outcomes," Journal of Globalization and Development, De Gruyter, vol. 1(1), pages 1-24, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:globdv:v:1:y:2010:i:1:n:4
    DOI: 10.2202/1948-1837.1017
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