Cao, Melanie; Shi, Shouyong - Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business - 2000
banks can reduce banks' screening probability by so much that the number of banks that actively compete in loan provisions … falls and the expected loan rate rises. This is the case when the screening cost is low, which induces all active bidders to … be informed. The opposite outcome occurs when the screening cost is high, in which case there are su±ciently many …