On the Role of Menus in Sequential Contracting: a Multiple Lending Example
				Attar  AndreaCasamatta CatherineChassagnon ArnoldDécamps Jean Paul			
		
				CEIS Research Paper
		
				We study a capital market in which multiple lenders sequentially attempt at financing a single borrower under moral hazard. We show that restricting lenders to post take-it-or-leave-it offers involves a severe loss of generality: none of the equilibrium outcomes arising in this scenario survives if lenders offer menus of contracts. This result challenges the approach followed in standard models of multiple lending. From a theoretical perspective, we offer new insights on equilibrium robustness in sequential common agency games.
  
 
		
		
	Number: 409
		
				Keywords: Multiple Lending, Menus, Strategic Default, Common Agency, Bank Competition
		
				JEL codes: D43,D82,G33
		
				Volume: 15
		
				Issue: 6
		
				Date: Thursday, July 13, 2017
		
				Revision Date: Thursday, July 13, 2017