Credit Rationing and Financial Disorder
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- Author(s): JACK GUTTENTAG, RICHARD HERRING
- Published: Apr 30, 2012
- Pages: 1359-1382
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb04912.x
ABSTRACT
We develop a model of lender behavior in the presence of default risk and moral hazard that determines default premiums and identifies the conditions under which borrowers are rationed. A hypothesis regarding a cognitive bias in the formation of expectations provides a dynamic component to our analysis and allows us to explain how an economy becomes vulnerable to a financial crisis and why vulnerability may increase over time.