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Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Systemic … European Consumer Credit Directive 2008/48/EC. Systemic usury is a market failure. The most powerful explanations for such … failure in consumer credit markets are monopoly power, where the consumer is locked in a bilateral credit relationship …
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for which are monopoly power, where the consumer is locked in a bilateral credit relationship; discrimination through risk …Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Although the … to a group which is statistically discriminated against leads to entrapment in a chain of usurious credit and financial …
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for which are monopoly power, where the consumer is locked in a bilateral credit relationship; discrimination through risk …Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Although the … to a group which is statistically discriminated against leads to entrapment in a chain of usurious credit and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507235
To sustain growth in an aging economy, it is important to ease the financing of small firms by bank loans. Using bank internal data of small business loans in Germany, we examine the determinants of loan rates in the period 1995-2010. Beyond characteristics of the firm, the loan contract, and...
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Guarantee banks backed by the state aim to close the gap in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises or start-ups caused by lacking collateral or equity and high information asymmetry. The present study quantifies the economic and fiscal net benefits of guarantee banks in the new...
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between both demographic groups. We find that entrepreneurs with a migration background are more likely to be denied credit or … to obtain smaller loan amounts than requested. After controlling for observed risk factors and financial relationships as … explanatory variables, ethnicity plays no role in explaining differences in the probability of credit rationing. These can be …
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credit constrained. The quality of financial inclusion is impaired by a low level of financial literacy, which is also … by public savings banks, credit cooperatives, public promotional banks, and guarantee banks using the "housebank" model …, and financial consumer protection and credit reporting regulations and institutions. Programs involving microfinance …
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To sustain growth in an aging economy, it is important to ease the financing of small firms by bank loans. Using bank internal data of small business loans in Germany, we examine the determinants of loan rates in the period 1995-2010. Beyond characteristics of the firm, the loan contract, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332024
for which are monopoly power, where the consumer is locked in a bilateral credit relationship; discrimination through risk …Usury is a frequent occurrence in consumer credit markets and particularly affects low-income households. Although the … to a group which is statistically discriminated against leads to entrapment in a chain of usurious credit and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142922