Information misreporting in the credit market: analysis of a Credit Bureau's Disciplinary role/ created by Mahmoud Sami Nabi and Souraya Ben Souissi
Material type: TextSeries: Comparative economic studies ; Volume 55, number 1Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Content type:- text
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Journal Article | Main Library - Special Collections | HB90 COM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Vol.55, no.1, (pages 145-166) | SP14969 | Not for loan | For In House Use Only |
Could a Credit Bureau incite banks to report correct information about their borrowers? We develop a spatial competition model à-la Salop (1979) with n interacting banks having the possibility to misreport information to a Credit Bureau. We show that the Credit Bureau can discipline banks and incite them to share information honestly by withdrawing the license of the ‘dishonest’ bank and enforcing a sufficiently high penalty. It is interestingly shown that the penalty threshold that conditions the effectiveness of the Credit Bureau's role depends on the structure of the credit market and the banks’ far-sightedness about their future profits.
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