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This paper leverages the universe of U.S. tax data and state lottery wins between 2000 and 2019 to estimate the causal effect of financial resources on three key lifecycle outcomes for young adults. We find large and persistent effects on homeownership, with a response function that exhibits...
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We build a model of optimal fixed-rate mortgage refinancing with fixed costs and inattention and derive a new sufficient statistic that can be used to measure inattention frictions from simple moments of the rate gap distribution. In the model, borrowers pay attention to rates sporadically so...
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We show how to measure the welfare effects arising from increased data availability. When lenders have more data on prospective borrower costs, they can charge prices that are more aligned with these costs. This increases total social welfare, and transfers surplus from borrowers to lenders. We...
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counterfactual in which the GSEs' underwriting criteria are implemented passively. Finally, the observed differences between banks …
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Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have … microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access both financial advice and credit; ii) SMEs to establish new fintech … for advice. When used for credit, OB promotes entry and competition by reducing adverse selection, but higher prices for …
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Interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has been burgeoning with 134 countries now exploring its implementation. In December 2022, India started its CBDC pilot program to continue its transition towards a digitized payments economy. This paper presents the first empirical analysis...
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-by-trade supervisory data and credit-registry data to examine banks' proprietary trading in borrower stocks around a large number of …This study analyzes information production and trading behavior of banks with lending relationships. We combine trade … corporate events. We find that relationship banks build up positive (negative) trading positions in the two weeks before events …
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Bank-created money, shadow-bank money, and Treasury bonds all satisfy investors' demand for a liquid transaction medium and safe store of value. We measure the quantity of these three forms of liquidity and their corresponding liquidity premium over a sample from 1934 to 2016. We empirically...
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.S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during … the 2022-2023 monetary tightening cycle extended less credit to firms. This spillover effect was stronger for available …-for-sale securities, unhedged securities, and banks that must include unrealized gains and losses in their regulatory capital. A …
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Corporate credit lines are drawn more heavily when funding markets are more stressed. This covariance elevates expected … bank funding costs. We show that credit supply is dampened by the associated debt-overhang cost to bank shareholders. Until … 2022, this impact was reduced by linking the interest paid on lines to credit-sensitive reference rates such as LIBOR. We …
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