Coordination Failure with Multiple-Source Lending: The Cost of Protection Against a Powerful Lender

Author： Hubert Franz   Schäfer Dorothea  

Publisher： Mohr Siebeck

ISSN： 0932-4569

Source： Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, Vol.158, Iss.2, 2002-06, pp. : 256-275

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Abstract

We analyze how a firm might protect quasirents in an environment of imperfect capital markets, where switching lenders is costly to the borrower, and contracts are incomplete. As switching costs make the firm vulnerable to ex post exploitation, it may want to diversify lending. Multiple-source lending, however, suffers from coordination failure. An uncoordinated withdrawal of funds will force a financially distressed firm into bankruptcy even though it could have been rescued if lenders had stayed firm. We show that the gains from preventing renegotiation do outweigh the cost of coordination failure if a single lender has sufficient bargaining power.

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