Learning about Competitors: Evidence from SME Lending

We study how small and medium enterprise (SME) lenders react to information about their competitors' contracting decisions. To isolate this learning from lenders' common reactions to unobserved shocks to fundamentals, we exploit the staggered entry of lenders into an information-sharing pl...

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Main Authors: Darmouni, Olivier (Author), Sutherland, Andrew Gordon (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-09-09T14:40:27Z.
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