Each entrepreneur is endowed with an illiquid asset, Ai, which is uniformly distributed in the interval [0,Ā]. The asset (or part of it) can be used as loan collateral. We denote the fraction of Ai disclosed to the bank and employed as collateral as γi, with γi∈[0,1]. Hence, banks observe γiAi but not γi or Ai separately. The fraction of the asset that is hidden, (1−γi)Ai, is not observed by any other agent or hence by government.