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Information asymmetry and competition in credit markets: the pricing of overdraft loans in Brazil

Mello, João Manoel Pinho de
2005-02-17

This paper evaluates how information asymmetry affects the strength of competition in credit markets. A theory is presented in which adverse selection softens competition by decreasing the incentives creditors have for ...
Informational spillovers in the pre-1914 London sovereign debt market

Mello, João Manoel Pinho de
2007-06-21

We document a novel type of international financial contagion whose driving force is shared financial intermediation. In the London peripheral sovereign debt market during pre-1914 period financial intermediation played a ...