The consumer credit market -- Credit risk -- Incremental loan profitability -- The fundamentals of price response -- Estimating price response -- Pricing segmentation -- Optimizing prices -- Behavioral economics and credit pricing

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it became apparent that pricing loans in a way that is profitable for lenders and sensitive to risk is anything but simple. Increasingly, lenders are following the lead of other retailers by segmenting their market and more precisely targeting customers....

With the aim of quantifying the effect of the decrease in interest rates on consumer loans (both credit cards and personal loans, in local currency to the non-financial private sector) in Argentina between March and December 2020, monthly error correction models are estimated, and counterfactual...