We exploit a nation-wide introduction of mandatory disclosure of borrowers' total credit exposures and show that … sharing such information increases credit access independent of borrowers' history. Differentiating between borrowers applying … history, we find an overall increase in credit access measured by both loan application acceptance and credit amount. While …

This paper investigates the role of loan contract terms in the performance of consumer credit. Taking advantage of a …

delinquency in Peru's consumer credit market. A model is estimated to assess the relation between delinquency and the DTI ratio … credit risk assessment and control. …

relationship between a cash-loan borrower's access to credit and their respective consumption response. In particular, we test … whether consumption among borrowers with a high level of addiction is more sensitive to a given change in credit. We use an … exogenous credit supply shock to cash-loan borrowers and show that expanding credit access is positively associated with …

Using comprehensive credit bureau data, we document that consumers who borrow from marketplace lending (MPL) platforms … have lower credit scores and higher default rates in the long run relative to observably similar applicants for bank loans …

This study develops a timely and unbiased measure of expected credit losses. The expected rate of credit losses … (ExpectedRCL) is a linear combination of various non-discretionary credit risk-related measures disclosed by banks. ExpectedRCL … performs substantially better than net charge-offs, realized credit losses, and fair value of loans in predicting credit losses …

Estimating expected credit losses on banks' portfolios is difficult. The issue has become of increasing interest to …-year-ahead expected rate of credit losses (ExpectedRCL) that combines various measures of credit risk disclosed by banks. It uses cross …-sectional analyses to obtain coefficients for estimating each period's measure of expected credit losses. ExpectedRCL substantially …

The development of credit information sharing schemes in developing countries has gained significant attention in … credit information sharing on credit intermediation cost in these countries, and consequently ascertain the extent to which … the credit information sharing–credit intermediation cost nexus may be accentuated by banking market concentration and …

We use individual credit histories to study how creditor-friendly repossession rights in auto lending affect borrowers … uncollateralized and collateralized credit, including home mortgage loans. Our findings suggest that creditors' rights can have broad …