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history exhibit better repayment behavior and lower default rates, partly driven by improved loan terms. Fourth, learning e …
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Consumers are more likely to keep a repayment promise they make themselves. When a scheduling conflict prevents a …
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Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. payment system has been undergoing a transformation featuring a significant decline in the use of paper checks that has been quite uneven across consumers and not well understood. This paper estimates econometric models of consumers' adoption (extensive margin) and...
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Higher sales tax in the home country relative to a neighboring country creates a huge incentive for consumers who live closer to the border to purchase goods across the border. Using a unique panel dataset of consumer financial transactions, we find that, when facing higher domestic sales tax,...
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policy on consumption and debt repayment behavior. The complex policy imposes two types of soft liquidity constraints for … about 15% higher debt repayment ratio. The initial increase in credit card spending is due to intertemporal arbitrage … mandates, has the strongest effect in reducing credit card spending and promoting faster debt repayment. Policy announcement …
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We precisely geolocate more than one million mortgage choices and use a nearest-neighbor research design to find that households' refinance, lender, and loan type choices are all socially influenced by their hyperlocal neighbors. Consistent with a word-of-mouth mechanism, households moving to...
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This paper investigates the effects of credit scores on consumer payment behavior, especially on debit and credit card use. Anecdotally, a negative relationship between debit card use and credit score has been reported; however, it is not clear whether that relationship is related to other...
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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 underperformance of MPL borrowers is more...
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Central banks around the world are examining the possibility of introducing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The public’s preferences concerning the usage of CBDC for paying and saving are important determinants of the success of CBDC. Using data from a representative panel of Dutch...
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This paper investigates the effects of credit scores on consumer payment behavior, especially on debit and credit card use. Anecdotally, a negative relationship between debit card use and credit score has been reported; however, it is not clear whether that relationship is related to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488901