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Screening using a menu of contracts: a structural model of lending markets

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  • Arthur Taburet

    (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business)

  • Alberto Polo

    (Bank of England)

  • Quynh-Anh Vo

    (Bank of England)

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When lenders screen borrowers using a menu of contracts, they generate a contractual externality by making the composition of their competitors’ borrowers worse. Using data from the UK mortgage market and a structural model of screening with endogenous menus, this paper quantifies the impact of asymmetric information on equilibrium contracts and welfare. Counterfactual simulations show that, because of the externality, there is too much screening along the loan to value dimension. The deadweight loss, expressed in borrowers’ utility, is equivalent to an interest rate increase of 30 basis points (a 15% increase) on all loans.

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  • Arthur Taburet & Alberto Polo & Quynh-Anh Vo, 2024. "Screening using a menu of contracts: a structural model of lending markets," Bank of England working papers 1057, Bank of England.
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    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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