Borrower Leakage from Costly Screening : Evidence from SME Lending in Peru

We provide evidence that commercial lenders in Peru suffer leakages in their loan approval process. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, we find that receiving a loan approval from the bank causes loan applicants to receive offers from other financial institutions...

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Main Authors: Arraiz, Irani, Bruhn, Miriam, Roth, Benjamin N., Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia, Stucchi, Rodolfo
Published: Elsevier 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36869