In this paper we study the impact of more transparency in the interbank market on the volume of bank intermediated loans and on the profitability of the banking business. Transparency is modeled by means of the informational content of publicly observable signals correlated to the random interbank interest rate. We find that more transparency may increase or decrease the volume of bank loans. I...

Institutional investors and investment managers seek to better characterize the credit risk of online consumer loans. This article describes how to prepare the data and build a credit risk model that can be used for a number of applications including generating alpha, issuing protection and securitizing loans into bonds with the desired risk/reward profile. A simple example is used to provide i...

It is widely accepted that loans cause deposits. Hitherto, though, the empirical evidence has come from bivariate causality tests which we know can give rise to invalid inference if the two variables are causally influenced by some third, omitted, variable. This is a real danger where loans and deposits are concerned since there is a substantial body of evidence that both are linked to GDP, or ...

Private details such as usernames, Cybercriminals often collect the victim's identification numbers, credit card information, and social security number in order to conduct fraud name of other person. These confidential may be used for a illegal purposes, including requesting loans, making online purchases, getting entry financial health details. The use an individual’s identity wrongful purpos...

The aim of this article is to investigate the dynamic correlation between the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty index (GEPU) and Non-Performing Loans (NPL) in Iran. The relationship between economic uncertainty and banking performance indices is significant because of the systemic importance of banks in every economy. We evaluated this relationship in this developing country, especially under ...

The model presented addresses issues that have recently been discussed under the term ‘financial contagion’. I analyze a situation where the fractions of repaid loans (i.e., the returns on lending) in two domains (e.g., industries or countries) are driven by two independent factors, one specific to the domain and the other a general factor. The fact that these different factors are unobserved g...

The authors acknowledge financial support from the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). However, the views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of CRL. The authors would also like to thank Karen Pence for providing us with her database on state foreclosure laws. 1 ABSTRACT There are growing concerns about the way predatory mortgages erode housing e...

One of the roots of the recent global financial crisis has been seen in the design of subprime mortgage contract leading to high sensitivity of such type of loans to house price changes. The market of subprime loans, especially in the last years preceding the crisis, has been highly financed by securitization. The paper investigates how borrowers with subprime characteristics influence the tran...

This paper explores the determinants of people’s decisions to take 401(k) loans. We argue that 401(k) plans do not simply represent retirement saving, but they also provide a means of saving for precautionary purposes. We model factors that rationally would induce people to borrow from their pension plans, and we explain why people do not often use 401(k) loans to replace their more expensive c...