Lender learning and entry under general demand uncertainty

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 163-175 - 2011
Neelam Jain1, Leonard J. Mirman2
1Department of Economics, City University London, London, UK
2Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Tóm tắt

In this paper, we examine the effect of potential entry on learning by a lender when the demand shock has a general distribution. We show that under this type of noise, entry does not lead to any changes in the equilibrium expected signals and therefore, there is no effect on learning by the lender, unlike the case when noise is uniformly distributed. The result holds even when contracts are not observable.

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