This paper investigates whether, and through which channel, the active use of credit derivatives changes bank behavior in the credit market, and how this channel was affected by the crisis of 2007-2009. Our principal finding is that banks with larger gross positions in credit derivatives charge...

Following a brief overview of how modern P2P lending works, this legal backgrounder will describe these recent regulatory and legislative developments. It will then conclude with a discussion of the relationship between regulation and innovation as it applies to this area. As evidenced by the...

Securitization has been widely assigned blame for contributing to the recent mortgage market meltdown and ensuing financial crisis. In this paper, we employ the OCC Home Equity database to develop estimates of default and prepayment probabilities for home equity lines of credit originated during...

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...

The financial crisis has led to an understandable distrust towards banks and mainstream financial operators and to banks curtailing credit for the weakest part of the real economy. This has also caused the flourishing of non-traditional forms of financial services (such as pawn shops,...

This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of the fast-evolving alternative finance space and makes a timely and in-depth contribution to the literature in this area. Bringing together expert contributions in the field from both practitioners and academics, in one of the most...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Fintech and its historical perspective -- Part I: FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN: INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW -- Chapter 3: Financial Engineering and ICT in the past -- Chapter 4: Fintech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues, New Paradigms and Disruption -- Chapter 5: The...

Chapter 1. An Overview of Technologically Enabled Finance -- Chapter 2. Innovations in Alternative Finance in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 3. A Layman’s Guide to Bitcoin and Blockchain -- Chapter 4. An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies -- Chapter 5. The Role of Utopia in the Workings of...