Asymmetric Information and Models of Credit Rationing

This paper outlines the development and exposits some of the central ideas and implications of asymmetric information in the credit market. Copyright 1993 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research

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