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Supersedes Working Paper 17-17 Fintech has been playing an increasing role in shaping financial and banking landscapes …
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The paper shows that peer information which banks collected from previous lending plays a role in current loan pricing. I construct peer information at the bank-firm level and find that firms obtain lower loan rates when borrowing from banks that lent to more similar peers in recent periods. The...
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The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors - family and friends - is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...
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Information asymmetry in the anonymous informal finance market drives the lenders to screen the borrowers by disclosed information. Using data from a powerful online peer-to-peer lending platform, we study the effects of formal financing records on successful funding and default outcomes in the...
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traditional banking. However, it is important to recognize that a constant conclusion would be misleading. P2P platforms have … addition, we discuss that acting on P2P online platforms satisfies most possible definitions of shadow banking and shows … significant similarities with many observed aspects of shadow banking. We thus infer that P2P lending can be considered part of …
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