Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Madestam, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
This paper examines the effects of group identity in the credit market. Exploiting the quasirandom assignment of first-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find that borrowers pay on average 29 basis points...