Predation and reputation acquisition in debt markets
Pires, C.P.
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(2003)
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"Predation and reputation acquisition in debt markets"
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Portuguese Economic Journal
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2
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1-21
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Autor(es) CEFAGE
Cesaltina Maria Pacheco Pires
Resumo
This paper presents a model of predation based on reputational differences between the entrant and an incumbent. While the incumbent has an established reputation in the debt market, the entrantss quality is not yet known in the debt market. We show that the incumbent may have incentives to prey in order to interfere with the reputation acquisition of the entrant.