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From New Deal institutions to capital markets: commercial consumer risk scores and the making of subprime mortgage finance
Poon, Martha - HAL - 2009
(Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792392
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Race, power, and the subprime/forceclosure crisis: A mesoanalysis
Dymski, Gary A.; Hernandez, Jesus; Mohanty, Lisa - 2011
Economists' principal explanations of the subprime crisis differ from those developed by noneconomists in that the latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281736
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The role of trust in the divergent development of alternative lending channels in the UK and Germany
Wardrop, Robert Hugh - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518133
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Reincorporating Friedrich von Wieser and the concept of power into the Austrian research program
Kolev, Stefan - 2017
This paper constitutes the start of a project dedicated to Austrian economist and economic sociologist Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926). Its central claim is that especially in recent decades, Wieser has become a disproportionately underresearched scholar, and the paper provides a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610366
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The abandoned übervater : Max Weber and the neoliberals
Kolev, Stefan - 2018
This paper addresses the intellectual relationship between Max Weber and three key proponents of neoliberalism: F.A. Hayek, Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke. This relationship is contextualized in the history of German-language political economy, focusing on the nexus and proximity between early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950298
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The Weber-Wieser connection : early economic sociology as an interpretative skeleton key
Kolev, Stefan - 2017
Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies. First, the studies are often either purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760025
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Bringing "honest capital" to poor borrowers: The passage of the uniform small loan law, 1907-1930
Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy; Lee, Yoonseok - 2009
The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation's primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282731
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Bringing "honest capitalʺ to poor borrowers : the passage of the uniform small loan law, 1907-1930
Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy; Lee, Yoonseok - 2009
The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841394
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Bringing "Honest Capital" to Poor Borrowers: The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930
Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Lee, Yoonseok - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009
The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018061
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Willingness to overpay for insurance and for consumer credit : search and risk behavior under price dispersion
Malakhov, Sergey - In: Expert journal of economics 2 (2014) 3, pp. 109-119
function takes the form of cubic parabola, where the risk aversion behavior ends at the saddle point of the comprehensive … the ambiguity of the departure from risk-neutrality. This ambiguity can produce the ordinary risk seeking behavior as well … as mathematical catastrophes of Veblen-effect's imprudence and over prudence of family altruism. The comeback to risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062057