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This paper studies the impact of a large debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India. It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief settlements using a natural experiment arising from India's Debt Relief Program...
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design of US student loans. Specifically, loans are organised like a mortgage, with fixed monthly repayments over a fixed … existing and alternative systems. Our illustrations show how US mortgage-style loans can create financial difficulties for a …
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Using a dataset covering one quarter of the U.S. general-purpose credit card market, we document that 29% of accounts regularly make payments at or near the minimum payment. We exploit changes in issuers' minimum payment formulas to distinguish between liquidity constraints and anchoring as...
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