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The role of trust in the divergent development of alternative lending channels in the UK and Germany
Wardrop, Robert Hugh - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518133
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Reincorporating Friedrich von Wieser and the concept of power into the Austrian research program
Kolev, Stefan - 2017
This paper constitutes the start of a project dedicated to Austrian economist and economic sociologist Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926). Its central claim is that especially in recent decades, Wieser has become a disproportionately underresearched scholar, and the paper provides a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610366
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The Weber-Wieser connection : early economic sociology as an interpretative skeleton key
Kolev, Stefan - 2017
Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies. First, the studies are often either purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760025
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The abandoned übervater : Max Weber and the neoliberals
Kolev, Stefan - 2018
This paper addresses the intellectual relationship between Max Weber and three key proponents of neoliberalism: F.A. Hayek, Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke. This relationship is contextualized in the history of German-language political economy, focusing on the nexus and proximity between early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950298
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Bringing "honest capitalʺ to poor borrowers : the passage of the uniform small loan law, 1907-1930
Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy; Lee, Yoonseok - 2009
The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841394
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Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior : Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
Arthi, Vellore; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of racial exploitation in post-Emancipation history. It was also most Black Americans' first experience of banking. Can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576605
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Markets for heterogeneous products : a boundedly rational consumer model
Valente, Marco - 2009
The paper is based on the acknowledgement that properties of markets stemming from features of demand are too frequently overlooked in the economic literature, and a re-balancing is necessary to properly account for theoretical and empirical phenomena. We sustain that one of the most relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732415
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The collective risk of inequality : a social dilemma calling for a solution?
Poppitz, Philipp - 2011
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, attention concerning inequality as a risk factor has risen. Nevertheless … studies, focusing on the implications of inequality as a collective risk, remain seldom. Therefore the following paper will … discuss why inequality is indeed a collective risk, leading to a social dilemma as known from game theory. The first section …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425855
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Race and subprime loan pricing
Ghent, Andra C.; Hernández-Murillo, Rubén; Owyang, … - 2011 - First draft: February 2011, preliminary
In this paper we investigate whether race and ethnicity influenced subprime loan pricing during 2005, the peak of the subprime mortgage expansion. We combine loan-level data on the performance of non-prime securitized mortgages with individual- and neighborhood-level data on racial and ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539498
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The effects of risk and ambiguity aversion on technology adoption : evidence from aquaculture in Ghana
Crentsil, Christian; Gschwandtner, Adelina; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder … aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with … surveybased information on their technology adoption decisions. We find that aquafarmers who are more risk-averse were quicker to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948304