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Because of current bankruptcy law, the growth in unsecured credit in the two decades since the 1978 Marquette Supreme Court ruling has reduced the average welfare of the poor. This striking conclusion emerges from a theoretical model designed to maximize the benefits of both plentiful unsecured...
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adverse selection (AS). In particular, we study how the level of such exemption affects the role of collateral depending on … higher for borrowers who are requested to post collateral. Moreover, conditional on posting collateral, the cost of credit … does not change with the level of asset exemption. Differently, in the case of AS, the decision to post collateral results …
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We document the cyclical properties of unsecured consumer credit (procyclical and volatile) and of consumer bankruptcies (countercyclical and very volatile). Using a growth model with household heterogeneity in earnings and assets with access to unsecured credit (because of bankruptcy costs) and...
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