When the Lender and the Borrower Have Different Amounts of Information

question 8

Multiple Choice

When the lender and the borrower have different amounts of information regarding a transaction,________ is said to exist.

• A) asymmetric information
• B) adverse selection
• C) moral hazard
• D) fraud

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