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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Autor Principal: Dagher, Jihad
Outros autores: Sun, Yangfan
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/212
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF