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Loan Insurance, Adverse Selection and Screening

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  • Kuncl, Martin
  • Ahnert, Toni

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We examine insurance against loan default when lenders can screen in primary markets at a heterogeneous cost and learn loan quality over time. In equilibrium, low-cost lenders screen loans but some high-cost lenders insure them. Insured loans are risk-free and liquid in a secondary market, while uninsured loans are subject to adverse selection. Loan insurance reduces the amount of lemons traded in the secondary market for uninsured loans and improves liquidity and welfare. This pecuniary externality implies insufficient loan insurance in the liquid equilibrium. To achieve constrained efficiency, a regulator (i) guarantees a minimum price in the market for uninsured loans to eliminatea welfare-dominated illiquid equilibrium; and (ii) imposes Pigouvian subsidies on loan insurance in the liquid equilibrium to correct for the externality.

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  • Kuncl, Martin & Ahnert, Toni, 2019. "Loan Insurance, Adverse Selection and Screening," VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy 203565, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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