Observing unobservables: Identifying information asymmetries with a consumer credit field experiment

Econometrica

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1993-2008

  Karlan, Dean ^a   Zinman, Jonathan ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced selection; Credit markets; Development finance; Information asymmetrics microfinance; Moral hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549159138     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA5781     Document Type: Article

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