Doblas-Madrid, Antonio; Minetti, Raoul - In: Journal of Financial Economics 109 (2013) 1, pp. 198-223
We investigate the impact of lenders' information sharing on firms' performance in the credit market using rich contract-level data from a U.S. credit bureau. The staggered entry of lenders into the bureau offers a natural experiment to identify the effect of lenders' improved access to...