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    Adverse Selection and Credit Certificates: Evidence from a P2P Platform

    Hu, Maggie Rong; Li, Xiaoyang; Shi, Yang | April 2019
    Abstract
    Certificates are widely used as a signaling mechanism to mitigate adverse selection when information is asymmetric. To reduce information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers, Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms encourage borrowers to obtain various kinds of credit certificates. As P2P markets continue to develop, it is plausible that certification may play a pivotal role in ensuring investment efficiency. We perform the first empirical investigation of this issue, using unique data from Renrendai, one of the People’s Republic of China’s largest P2P lending platforms. We find that surprisingly, loans with more credit certificates experience a higher rate of delinquency and default. However, lenders remain attracted by higher certificates despite lower loan performance ex post, which results in distorted capital allocation and reduced investment inefficiency. Overall, we document a setting where credit certificates fail to serve as an accurate signal due to their costless nature, where poor-quality borrowers use more certificates to boost their credit profiles and improve their funding success. Possible explanations for this phenomenon include differences in marginal benefit of certificates for different borrower types, bounded rationality, cognitive simplification, and borrower myopia.
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    Hu, Maggie Rong; Li, Xiaoyang; Shi, Yang. 2019. Adverse Selection and Credit Certificates: Evidence from a P2P Platform. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/10110.
    Keywords
    Urban Development Finance
    Trade Finance
    Small Business Finance
    Rural Finance
    Roundtable on International Trade and Finance
    Regional Development Finance
    Public Service Finance
    Public Finance
    Project Finance
    Private Finance
    Nonbank Financing
    Non-Bank Financial Institutions
    Municipal Finance
    Local Government Finance
    Local Currency Financing
    Limited Resource Financing
    International Financial Institutions
    Infrastructure Financing
    Industrial Finance
    Government Financial Institutions
    Government Finance
    Financing of Infrastructure
    Financial Sector Development
    Financial Regulation
    Public Sector Infrastructure
    Public Sector Management
    Public Sector Projects
    Taxation
    Public Accounting
    National Budget
    Municipal Bonds
    Local Government
    Local Taxes
    International Monetary Relations
    International Financial Market
    International Banking
    Central Banks
    Business Financing
    Capital Resources
    Budgetary Policy
    Capital Needs
    Corporate Divestiture
    Capital Instruments
    Pension Funds
    Insurance Companies
    Banks
    Portfolio Management
    Fiscal Administration
    Economics of Education
    Development Banks
    Public enterprises
    Public finance
    Infrastructure projects
    Development projects
    Bonds
    Grants
    Loans
    Use tax
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    Tax-sales
    Tax revenue estimating
    Tax planning
    Spendings tax
    Special assessments
    Tax administration and procedure
    Sales tax
    Real property and taxation
    Progressive taxation
    Effect of taxation on land use
    Effect of taxation on labor supply
    Intergovernmental tax relations
    Inheritance and transfer tax
    Energy tax
    Investment of public funds
    Intergovernmental fiscal relations
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    Public works
    Government lending
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    Author
    Hu, Maggie Rong
    Li, Xiaoyang
    Shi, Yang
    Theme
    Finance
    Public Sector
     
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