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encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the …%, with large percentage increases in spending on children's clothes and shoes of 193% and 98% respectively. Consumers with … STH or cross-product substitution away from non-treated goods. Finally, we show that consumers from across state borders …
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Using a unique sample of comparable online and in-person loan transactions, we study the determinants of arm's-length and inside lending focusing on the differential information content across debt types. We find that soft private information primarily underlies relationship lending whereas hard...
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financial variables underlying the relative pricing of debt contracts are the leading factors explaining consumers' home equity …. However, when we study a subset of consumers who received a direct mail solicitation for a particular debt contract (fixed …
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A number of studies have pointed to various mistakes that consumers might make in their consumption-saving and … such mistakes are in practice. The bank offered consumers a choice between two credit card contracts, one with an annual … costs net of the fee, consumers expecting to borrow a sufficiently large amount should choose the contract with the fee, and …
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The main rationale for policy intervention in debt renegotiation is to enhance such activity when foreclosures are perceived to be inefficiently high. We examine the ability of the government to influence debt renegotiation by empirically evaluating the effects of the 2009 Home Affordable...
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Refinancing a mortgage is often one of the biggest and most important financial decisions that people make. Borrowers need to choose the interest rate differential at which to refinance and, when that differential is reached, they need to take the steps to refinance before rates change again....
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We show how a regulatory disclosure of hidden debt can eliminate a large mispricing in housing. In a setting where homebuyers must combine several sources of debt, they are biased towards hidden loans, especially if they are young, or have no experience in financial investments or home...
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Using a unique sample of comparable online and in-person loan transactions, we study the determinants of arm's-length and inside lending focusing on the differential information content across debt types. We find that soft private information primarily underlies relationship lending whereas hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785868
financial variables underlying the relative pricing of debt contracts are the leading factors explaining consumers' home equity …. However, when we study a subset of consumers who received a direct mail solicitation for a particular debt contract (fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774092
We evaluate the effects of the 2009 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that provided intermediaries with sizeable financial incentives to renegotiate mortgages. HAMP increased intensity of renegotiations and prevented substantial number of foreclosures but reached just one-third of its...
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