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We analyze competition in the consumer lending segment between banks and financial technology (or “fintech”) companies (or “fintechs”) as well as giant technology (or “bigtech”) companies (or “bigtechs”) providing alternative credit. We use a database combining banklevel...
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Contrary to common perceptions, we find that fintech shadow banks do not possess technological advantages over traditional banks, which have had significantly more patent output and technology-based talent (digital capital) acquisitions over the past decade. Consequently, although fintech shadow...
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Discrimination in lending can occur either in face-to-face decisions or in algorithmic scoring. We provide a workable … interpretation of the courts' legitimate-business-necessity defense of statistical discrimination. We then estimate the extent of … racial/ethnic discrimination in the largest consumer-lending market using an identification afforded by the pricing of …
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Discrimination in lending can occur either in face-to-face decisions or in algorithmic scoring. We provide a workable … interpretation of the courts' legitimate-business-necessity defense of statistical discrimination. We then estimate the extent of … racial/ethnic discrimination in the largest consumer-lending market using an identification afforded by the pricing of …
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We use the 2016 FinAccess Household survey data of 2015 from 8665 households and desktop reviews to examine how perceptions, behaviour, financial literacy and socioeconomic characteristics of un(der) banked consumers can shape their dynamics towards credit usage. The challenges and opportunities...
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Fintechs are believed to help expand credit access to underserved consumers without taking on additional risk. We compare the performance efficiency of LendingClub's unsecured personal loans with similar loans originated by banks. Using stochastic frontier estimation, we decompose the observed...
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Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). We find that FinTech is disproportionately used in ZIP codes with fewer bank branches, lower …
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We document that, since 2011, mortgage lenders reduced credit to middle-class households by 15% and increased credit to …
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