Blanco-Oliver, A.; Samaniego, A.; Palacin-Sanchez, M. J. - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 24 (2024) 3, pp. 435-448
This paper analyses the impact of the gender of the loan officer-borrower pair on the loan-size, credit availability and time spent in managing the credit application. By using 3,020 lending transactions from Ecuador during 2016-2019, we document that the loan officer-borrower pair gender drives...