A model of the financial market is evaluated that consists of competing credit institutions (local lenders and financial intermediaries) to determine risk and intermediation effects on the financing obtained by entrepreneurs. Local lenders are considered to be principals with respect to the...

We analyze the Pareto optimal contracts between lenders and borrowers in a model with asymmetric information. The model generalizes the Rothschild-Stiglitz pure adverse selection problem by including moral hazard. Entrepreneurs with unequal “abilities” borrow to finance alternative...