Dynamic Adverse Selection and Debt.

This paper argues that the strategic use of debt favours the revelation of information in Dynamic adverse selection problems. Our argument is based on the idea that debt is a credible commitment to end long term relationships. Consequently, debt debt encourages a privately informed party to disclose its information at at early stages of a relationship. We illustrate our point with the finiancingndecisionof a monopolist selling a good to a buyer whose valuationis private information.