Democracy declined : the failed politics of consumer financial protection -- Full disclosure : building the U.S. political economy of credit -- "Storming mad" but staying home : depoliticizing the American borrower -- The "horseless headmen" : consumer groups and the challenge of political...

This paper documents that an appreciation of the U.S. dollar is associated with a reduction in the supply of commercial and industrial loans by U.S. banks. An increase in the broad dollar index by 2.5 points (one standard deviation) reduces U.S. banks' corporate loan originations by 10 percent....

We study the impact of emotions on real-world decisions made by loan officers by analyzing the loan conditions of loans granted immediately after a bank branch robbery. We find significant differences between the conditions of loans granted after a robbery and changes in loan conditions that...