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A Simpler Approach to Finance Reform
(Regulation, 2013)
There is a growing consensus that new financial reform legislation may be in order. The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, while well-intended, is now widely viewed to be at best insufficient, at worst a costly misfire. Members of ...
Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets
(American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)
This paper tests for incentive and selection effects in a subprime consumer credit market. We estimate the incentive effect of loan size on default using sharp discontinuities in loan eligibility rules. This allows us to ...