We use a discrete choice recursive model to classify 629 companies with dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) in 1999 and 514 companies without them. Our model classifies 72.0% of companies correctly. We interpret misclassified companies as being likely to switch their plan status. For example, if...

Research on moral hazard and adverse selection indicates that restricting the ability of lenders to price loans could result in less credit being extended to those in the riskiest credit tier. Given that blacks have worse credit than similarly situated whites, then they would be worse off if...

Research on moral hazard and adverse selection indicates that restricting the ability of lenders to price loans could result in less credit being extended to those in the riskiest credit tier. This has several implications for mortgage lending and overages in particular. First, given that blacks...

We conduct an empirical investigation to explain observed differentials in mortgage overage pricing. Our analysis makes several contributions. First, we study an area of mortgage pricing that is little understood by consumers and has received little scrutiny in the literature. Second, we...