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The majority of people in Sub-Saharan Africa does not have a basic bank account and are financially excluded from main …
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Technology has changed how discrimination manifests itself in financial services. Replacing human discretion with … algorithms in decision-making roles reduces taste-based discrimination, and new modeling techniques have expanded access to … human involvement in the development process, and their opacity and complexity can facilitate statistical discrimination …
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The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technology and increased competition in some parts of the finance industry. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale and the use of big...
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Technology has changed how discrimination manifests itself in financial services. Replacing human discretion with … algorithms in decision-making roles reduces taste-based discrimination, and new modeling techniques have expanded access to … human involvement in the development process, and their opacity and complexity can facilitate statistical discrimination …
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We ask whether machine learning algorithms improve the efficiency of screening of the loan officers, and thereby help expand access to formal credit. We obtain loan application level data from an Indian bank. To overcome the selective labels problem, we exploit the incentive driven within...
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Discrimination in lending can occur either in face-to-face decisions or in algorithmic scoring. We provide a workable … interpretation of the courts' legitimate-business-necessity defense of statistical discrimination. We then estimate the extent of … racial/ethnic discrimination in the largest consumer-lending market using an identification afforded by the pricing of …
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The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831538