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Despite the prominent role that information plays in the economic theory of credit markets, no direct evidence exists on the causal relationship between the availability of information about loan applicants and loan performance. This paper provides such evidence by exploiting an unanticipated...
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Given the importance of lending to economies both ancient and modern, and given the widely acknowledged relevance of creditor and debtor protections for nurturing a vibrant and productive credit market, a large critical literature has developed exploring the intersection of law and lending....
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Personal bankruptcies in the United States have increased dramatically, rising from 1.4 per thousand working age population in 1970 to 8.5 in 2002. We use a heterogeneous agent life-cycle model with competitive financial intermediaries who can observe households' earnings, age and current asset...
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Personal bankruptcies in the United States have increased dramatically, rising from 1.4 per thousand working age population in 1970 to 8.5 in 2002. We use a heterogeneous agent life-cycle model with competitive financial intermediaries who can observe households' earnings, age and current asset...
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between household debt levels, financial stability risks, and the ongoing implications of the ‘debt overhang’ for economic … growth. However, accurately measuring the household debt burden remains problematic. Aggregate measures of household … indebtedness (e.?g. household liabilities relative to income) fail to fully capture the debt servicing burdens of households …
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