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 platform. Up...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sutherland, Andrew Gordon
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130400