This Data Point article focuses on small business credit, examining patterns in small business lending (SBL) and the sources of this lending among depository institutions pre-Great Recession (2004-2007), through the Great Recession (2008-2009), and then throughout the post-Great Recession...

This study examines how omitted variables affect underwriting models the OCC estimates during fair lending examinations. The purpose is to assess the effects of omitted variable bias common to most studies of discrimination in mortgage lending. The results show omitted variables have an...