Asriyan, VladimirLaeven, LucMartin, AlbertoUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2024-11-142024-11-142020-12-10Review of Economic Studies, 89 (2), 2022, 517–555.http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44683We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. Entrepreneurs need credit to undertake investment projects, some of which enable them to divert resources. Lenders can protect themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about projects. In equilibrium, the collateralizationscreening mix depends on the value of aggregate collateral. High collateral values make it possible to reallocate resources towards productive projects, but they also crowd out screening. This has important dynamic implications. During credit booms driven by high collateral values (e.g., real estate booms), economic activity expands but the economy's stock of information on existing projects gets depleted. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep crises and slow recoveries: when booms end, investment is constrained both by the lack of collateral and by the lack of information on existing projects, which takes time to rebuild. We provide empirical support for the mechanism using US firm-level data.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsCollateral booms and information depletion<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">credit booms</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">collateral</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">information production</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">crises</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">misallocation.</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Macroeconomics and International Economics</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>