Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97713 
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2009
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IMFS Working Paper Series No. 32
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Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS), Frankfurt a. M.
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We present a simple model of personal finance in which an incumbent lender has an information advantage vis-a-vis both potential competitors and households. In order to extract more consumer surplus, a lender with sufficient market power may engage in irresponsiblelending, approving credit even if this is knowingly against a household’s best interest. Unless rival lenders are equally well informed, competition may reduce welfare. This holds, in particular, if less informed rivals can free ride on the incumbent’s superior screening ability.
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