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Designed to Fail : Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment

Cox, James C. - 2018

We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income Driven Repayment when the majority would benefit from doing so. To do so we run an incentivized laboratory experiment using a facsimile of the government's Student Loan Exit Counseling website. We test the role information complexity,...

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Default and Repayment Among Baccalaureate Degree Earners

Lochner, Lance - 2014

More than low default rates, lenders are interested in the expected return on their loans. In this paper, we consider a number of other measures of repayment and nonpayment that are likely to be of direct interest to lenders. Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, we...

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Framing Effects, Earnings Expectations, and the Design of Student Loan Repayment Schemes

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

Income-driven student loan repayment (IDR) plans provide protection against unaffordable loan payments and default by linking loan payments to borrowers' earnings. Despite the advantages IDR would offer to many borrowers, take-up remains low. We investigate how take-up is affected by the framing...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Debt Relief : Consumer Bankruptcy Protections in the Great Recession

Auclert, Adrien - 2019

This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the Great Recession. We document that over this period, states with more generous bankruptcy exemptions had significantly smaller declines in non-tradable...

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Macroeconomic-Driven Prepayment Risk and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Chernov, Mikhail - 2016

We introduce a reduced-form modeling framework for mortgage-backed securities in which we solve for the implied prepayment function from the cross section of market prices. From the implied prepayment function, we find that prepayment rates are driven not only by interest rates, but also by two...

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Student Loans and Repayment : Theory, Evidence and Policy

Lochner, Lance - 2015

Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...

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Personal Bankruptcy and Credit Supply and Demand

Gropp, Reint - 2008

This paper examines how personal bankruptcy and bankruptcy exemptions affect the supply and demand for credit. While generous state-level bankruptcy exemptions are probably viewed by most policymakers as benefitting less-well-off borrowers, our results using data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer...

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No-Fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions

Merton, Robert C.; Thakor, Richard T. - 2022

This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a relatively seamless transfer...

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Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment

Brock, William A.; Manski, Charles F. - 2021

We study a competitive credit market in which lenders with partial knowledge of loan repayment use one of three decision criteria - maximization of expected utility, maximin, or minimax regret - to make lending decisions. Lenders allocate endowments between loans and a safe asset, while...

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A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy

Gan, Li - 2010

the bankruptcy decision or not. For the strategic timing theory such decisions are endogenous, while for the adverse … events theory they are not. Hausman tests for endogeneity show that financial benefit, unsecured debt, and non-exempt assets … are exogenous with the bankruptcy decision, consistent with the adverse events theory …

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