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credit lines, while those with higher overdraft fees have larger ones. Firms with greater profit growth in the past have … larger credit lines, while those with more internal funds or higher volatility in profit growth have smaller credit lines …
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liquidate collateral affect non-mortgage credit provision in the context of personal loan application. The housing policy …-in-differences estimation and is not driven by changes in local credit demand. Improved collateral liquidity is the key channel driving the … results. Furthermore, the credit expansion does not lead to increased delinquency. Analysing credit statistics data verify …
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. Although competition reduces firm revenues and benefits consumers initially, shrouding helps banks offset the vast majority of …
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This study employs an administrative dataset containing high-frequency transaction records for approximately four million smart transit cards used by Singaporean residents in order to study the travel preferences of public transport commuters. We examine the impact of service attributes,...
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This paper estimates hedonic prices for different levels of housing space, by exploiting a unique space-adding project in Singapore that added a uniform amount of space to each existing housing unit regardless of the original size. This space adding program was carried out if sufficient...
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This paper studies the effect of adding space to existing housing apartments on housing price and the probability that owners will sell their apartment (flat). This space adding is part of a large scale urban renewal and upgrading policy in Singapore, and is carried out only if sufficient...
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Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
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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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Using several large data sets of mortgage loans originated between 2004 and 2007, we find that in the prime mortgage market, banks generally sold low-default-risk loans into the secondary market while retaining higher-default-risk loans in their portfolios. In contrast, these lenders retained...
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