11
JUL 2016

14:15 - 15:45
IWH Research Seminar

Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine: Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market

We exploit detailed data on approved and rejected small-business loans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Ralph De Haas, PhD  (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
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IWH conference room
Ralph De Haas, PhD

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Ralph De Haas is the Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He holds a PhD in Economics from Utrecht University and previously worked as a Senior Economist in the Prudential Supervision Department and the Economic Policy and Research Department of the Dutch central bank.

We exploit detailed data on approved and rejected small-business loans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our findings are threefold. First, mandatory information sharing tightens lending at the extensive margin as more applications are rejected. These rejections are based increasingly on hard information – especially positive borrower information from the new registry – and less on soft information. Second, lending standards also tighten at the intensive margin: Information sharing leads to smaller, shorter and more expensive loans. Third, the tightening of lending along both margins improves loan quality, in particular for first-time borrowers. This suggests that a reduction in adverse selection is an important channel through which information sharing affects loan quality.

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