Since the 2018 Murphy v. NCAA decision, 38 states have legalized mobile sports betting. We study effects on betting and consumer credit, emphasizing spatial spillovers across state lines. Using consumer spending data and an extended two-way fixed effects framework that separately identifies...

I study the informational value of community resilience in credit markets during natural disasters. Exploiting a severe flood in Germany in 2013, I combine loan-level data on car loans with a composite measure of community resilience based on structural local characteristics linked to disaster...

This paper asks whether debt among affluent consumers reflects rational leverage, comparable to firms, or the influence of cognitive biases. Using survey data on Brazilian bank clients, we combine logistic regressions with a finite-mixture-inspired, rule-based classification and a test based on...

The European Central Bank's interest rate hikes since July 2022 have been passed on to customers by banks on credit markets to a much greater extent than on deposit markets. As a result, banks' net interest margins have risen extraordinarily sharply. An analysis of the interest rate pass-through...

According to the regulations in force, including in Poland, loan institutions must disclose the costs of consumer credit. However, these costs can be presented in many ways. By conducting in -depth interviews with experts, we analyse whether the way in which the applicable regulations are...

I study the credit channel of the electric-vehicle (EV) transition using more than 1.8 million German auto loans and leases. I show that EV financing contracts default significantly less often than comparable internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) contracts-particularly among lower-income...

Colombia's post-pandemic recovery in 2021-2022 was marked by rapid consumer credit growth, followed by deteriorating credit quality indicators amid tightening financial conditions. In January 2023, the Superintendence of Finance of Colombia (SFC) introduced higher provisioning requirements for...

Financial technology (FT) has been credited for supporting sustainable development and financial inclusion. However, issues such as balancing innovation with consumer protection and the challenges of loan default have emerged as significant concerns in this context. The study aimed to test the...

BNPL can lead to an expansion of consumption, but also to household over-indebtedness. The aim of the article is to define the profile of the BNPL user in Poland based on responses to a sur-vey conducted using the CAWI technique among BNPL clients in Poland in August 2024. The rela-tions are...

Zusammenfassung: This book examines the structural asymmetries embedded in contemporary consumer credit systems. Trust—essential to economic exchange—is increasingly withheld from borrowers while demanded of them. Lenders operate with minimal visibility or accountability; borrowers must...

I study the informational value of community resilience in credit markets during natural disasters. Exploiting a severe flood in Germany in 2013, I combine loan-level data on car loans with a composite measure of community resilience based on structural local characteristics linked to disaster...

Monetary policy impacts consumer spending via the effect of interest rate changes on credit card borrowing. Using supervisory account-level spending and balance data, we estimate that a 1 percentage point increase in the interest rate reduces credit card spending by nearly 9 percent and...

FinTech-based lending has rapidly expanded in emerging economies, offering convenience and inclusion but also raising concerns about over-indebtedness. In Indonesia, the surge of digital loans has been accompanied by growing signs of risky borrowing behavior, including late payments, high...

Using a monthly panel dataset of individuals' debt, we show that house price changes can explain a significant fraction of personal debt composition dynamics. We exploit the variation in local house price growth as shocks to homeowners' housing wealth to study the consequential adjustment of...