Borrower Protection and the Supply of Credit : Evidence from Foreclosure Laws /

Laws governing the foreclosure process can have direct consequences on the costs of foreclosure and could therefore affect lending decisions. We exploit the heterogeneity in the judicial requirements across U.S. states to examine their impact on banks' lending decisions in a sample of urban are...

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1. Verfasser: Dagher, Jihad
Weitere Verfasser: Sun, Yangfan
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/212
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF