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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"consumer borrowing"”.
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The Effects of Consumer Loan Application Formats and Advertised Terms on Consumer Borrowing Decisions
<p>Consumers continue to demonstrate a willingness to accrue more debt. They are also more accepting of increased repayment risk via the acceptance of longer loan terms. Extant research on consumer borrowing consists primarily of experiments designed to assess consumer choices and understand how …
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The economics of personal bankruptcy
… thesis examines the effect of bankruptcy law on consumer borrowing and welfare. The thesis consists of four theoretical chapters and two empirical chapters. Chapter 1 presents a simple model of consumer borrowing where the repayment of debt is governed by a bankruptcy law which allows a consumer …
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Essays on the taxation and regulation of financial markets
… on the relationship between market structure and consumer borrowing. This chapter uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test empirically the relationship between banking market concentration and households' self-reported measures of credit rationing and constraint. There is strong …
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Essays on insurance
… reduce earnings, income, access to credit, and consumer borrowing. The earnings decline is substantial compared to the out-of-pocket spending increase, and is minimally insured prior to age-eligibility for Social Security Retirement Income. Relative to the insured non-elderly, the uninsured …