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Dynamic Adverse Selection and Belief Update in Credit Markets

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  • Jang, Inkee
  • Kang, Kee-Youn

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We develop a dynamic model of debt contracts with adverse selection. Entrepreneurs borrow investment goods from lenders to run businesses whose returns depend on entrepreneurial productivity and common productivity. Entrepreneurial productivity is the entrepreneur’s private information, and lenders construct beliefs about entrepreneurial productivity based on the entrepreneur’s business operation history, common productivity history, and the terms of the contract. The model provides insights into the dynamic and cross-sectional relations between firm age and credit risk, persistency of the effects of a productivity shock, cyclical asymmetry of the business cycle, slow recovery after a crisis, and constructive and destructive economic downturns.

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  • Jang, Inkee & Kang, Kee-Youn, 2025. "Dynamic Adverse Selection and Belief Update in Credit Markets," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 60(4), pages 1994-2025, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:60:y:2025:i:4:p:1994-2025_13
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