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Loan commitments to business in United States banking history
Summers, Bruce J. (1975-09)
An abstract for this article is not available.
Economic Review , Volume 61 , Issue Sep , Pages 15-23

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A time series analysis of business loans at large commercial banks
Summers, Bruce J. (1975-05)
An abstract for this article is not available.
Economic Review , Volume 61 , Issue May , Pages 8-14

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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India
Dasgupta, Basab; Zimmermann, Christian (2012)
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with a loan rate cap and no lender discrimination by risk using a survey of rural lenders. Households borrow primarily from informal moneylenders and use child labor. Removing the rate cap and allowing lender discrimination markedly increases capital use, eliminates child labor, and improves welfare of all ...
Working Papers , Paper 2012-027

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In harm’s way? Payday loan access and military personnel performance
Zinman, Jonathan; Carrell, Scott (2008)
Does borrowing at 400 percent APR do more harm than good? The Pentagon asserts that payday loans harm military readiness and successfully lobbied for a binding 36 percent APR cap on loans to military members and their families (effective October 1, 2007). But existing evidence on how access to high-interest debt affects borrower behavior is inconclusive. We use within-state variation in state lending laws and exogenous variation in the assignment of Air Force personnel to bases in different states to estimate the effect of payday loan access on personnel outcomes. We find significant average ...
Working Papers , Paper 08-18

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Creditor control of free cash flow
Huang, Rocco (2009)
With free cash flows, borrowers can accumulate cash or voluntarily pay down debts. However, sometimes creditors impose a mandatory repayment covenant called "excess cash flow sweep" in loan contracts to force borrowers to repay debts ahead of schedule. About 17 percent of borrowers in the authors' sample (1995-2006) have this covenant attached to at least one of their loans. The author finds that the sweep covenant is more likely to be imposed on borrowers with higher leverage (i.e., where risk shifting by equity holders is more likely). The results are robust to including borrower fixed ...
Working Papers , Paper 09-30

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Pairwise credit and the initial cost of lending
Sanches, Daniel R. (2010)
The author studies the terms of credit in a competitive market in which sellers are willing to repeatedly finance the purchases of buyers by extending direct credit. Lenders (sellers) can commit to deliver any long-term credit contract that does not result in a payoff that is lower than that associated with autarky, while borrowers (buyers) cannot commit to any contract. A borrower's ability to repay a loan is privately observable. As a result, the terms of credit within an enduring relationship change over time, according to the history of trades. Two borrowers are treated differently by the ...
Working Papers , Paper 10-23

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Transactions accounts and loan monitoring.
Mester, Loretta J.; Nakamura, Leonard I.; Renault, Micheline (2004)
We provide evidence that transactions accounts help financial intermediaries monitor borrowers by offering lenders a continuous stream of data on borrowers? account balances. This information is most readily available to commercial banks, but other intermediaries, such as finance companies, also have access to such information at a cost. Using a unique set of data that includes monthly and annual information on small-business borrowers at an anonymous Canadian bank, we provide empirical evidence that transactions account information helps the bank to monitor commercial borrowers? operating ...
Working Papers , Paper 04-20

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Loan guarantees for consumer credit markets
Young, Eric R.; Tam, Xuan S.; Athreya, Kartik B. (2011)
Loan guarantees are arguably the most widely used policy intervention in credit markets, especially for consumers. This may be natural, as they have several features that, a priori, suggest that they might be particularly effective in improving allocations. However, despite this, little is actually known about the size of their effects on prices, allocations, and welfare. ; In this paper, we provide a quantitative assessment of loan guarantees, in the context of unsecured consumption loans. Our work is novel as it studies loan guarantees in a rich dynamic model where credit allocation is ...
Working Paper , Paper 11-06

Blog
Financial Positions of U.S. Public Corporations: Part 5, The Main Street Lending Program: Potential Benefits and Costs
Crouzet, Nicolas; Gourio, Francois (2020-06-18)
This blog post is the fifth in a series that discusses how the current pandemic affects the financial positions of publicly traded U.S. corporations, the potential implications of these financial developments, and the federal policy response. In this post, we study the economic benefits and costs of the Main Street Lending Program, created by the Federal Reserve to support corporations during this crisis. We make four points, which reflect our analysis and are not the views of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. First, the main potential benefit of this program ...
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Journal Article
Hope on credit: microlending comes to the U.S.
Wasserman, Miriam (1998-10)
Regional Review , Volume 8 , Issue Q 4 , Pages 18-24

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