“…In line with this work, Pagano and Jappelli predict that if banks share information about their customers, they would increase lending to safe borrowers, thereby decreasing default rates (Pagano and Jappelli 1993;Jappelli and Pagano 2002). Relatedly, Einav, Jenkins, and Levin (2013) find that credit scoring provides the ability to target more generous loans to lower-risk borrowers among individuals with lower income. Other empirical studies tend to focus on the effects of credit bureaus and creditor rights using data from a cross section of countries (see, e.g., Djankov, McLiesh, and Shleifer 2007;Qian and Strahan 2007).…”