Risk-based pricing is an alignment of loan risk pricing with expected loan risk - charging a higher interest rate for higher risk (Yezer, 2002). This article shows systematic relaxation of risk pricing for sub-prime loans during the US housing bubble, a period that extended from 2001 to 2006....

This paper uses Duffie and Singleton (1999) discount model for defaultable bonds to infer the presence of a preferential credit treatment (PCT) for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in loss given default (LGD) space. The main inferences from the paper are twofold. -1- Lower lending fees in...