In an environment with correlated returns, this paper characterizes optimal lending contracts when the bank faces adverse selection and borrowers have limited liability. Group lending contracts are shown to be dominated by revelation mechanisms which do not use the ex post observability of the...

We focus on adverse selection as a foundation of group lending. In a simple static model we show that there is no collateral effect if borrowers do not know each other. If the borrowers know each other, group lending implements efficient lending. However, it is not robust to collusive behavior,...

In the chapter 4 of their book "Endogenous Growth Theory", P. Aghion and P. Howitt introduce environemental pollution in an aggregate Schumpeterian model and they characterize the optimal path. In this paper , we study the equilibria in a decentralized compatible with their model. First study...