The authors' analysis of adverse selection indicates that financial intermediaries in general, and banks in particular (because they hold a large fraction of nontraded loans),

A) have advantages in overcoming the free-rider problem, helping to explain why indirect finance is a more important source of business finance than direct finance.
B) play a greater role in moving funds to corporations than do securities markets as a result of their ability to overcome the free-rider problem.
C) provide better-known and larger corporations a higher percentage of their external funds than they do to newer and smaller corporations, which rely to a greater extent on the new issues market for funds.
D) all of the above.
E) only A and B of the above.

E

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