3.4. Judicial efficiency
As with the cost of financial intermediation, any other factor that
affects the relative returns of the two projects also affects the choice
of collateral and, from Eq. (10), the choice of γi. This implies that an
increase in the tax rate t reduces the expected return from HT projects
and the optimal γi. For the same reasons, an increase in the productivity
of LT projects (an increase in Φ) raises the profitability of the
project and reduces γi. In graphical terms, as t increases and the
expected return of HT projects falls, the disclosure function γ(Ai)
shifts downwards. This implies that each entrepreneur will disclose