Bertsch, Christoph; Hull, Isaiah; Qi, Yingjie; Zhang, Xin - 2021
We introduce a high quality proxy for bank misconduct that is constructed from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau … (CFPB) complaint data. We employ this proxy to measure the impact of bank misconduct on the expansion of online lending in … bank misconduct is associated with a statistically and economically significant increase in online lending demand at the …