This research examines how credit card debt affects consumer spending. In five experimental and field studies, the authors demonstrate that outstanding credit card debt increases spending for consumers with high self-control. They also show that this effect can be eliminated by increasing the available credit on the credit card. Thus, when the available credit is low, consumers with greater sel...

Given the worldwide financial market confusion caused by the subprime mortgage problem and the increase in credit line contracts with relaxed covenants, there have been cases in which financial institutions are facing a demand to provide additional credit to securitized vehicles with heightened liquidity and credit risks. These are typical examples demonstrating the importance of risk managemen...

Inappropriate management in some fields such as credit allocation has imposed too many losses to financial institutions and even has forced some of them to go bankrupt. Moreover, large volume data sets collected by credit departments has necessitated utilizing highly accurate models with less complexities. Credit scoring models with classification and forecasting customers into two groups good ...

In practice, in order to reduce default risks with credit-risk customers, a seller (e.g., a manufacturer or a retailer) frequently requests its credit-risk customers to pay a fraction of the purchase amount at the time of placing an order as collateral deposit, and then grants a permissible delay on the outstanding balance (i.e., a down-stream partial trade credit). By contrast, the seller usua...

Abstract This paper explores the implications of technological progress in consumer lending. The model features households whose endowment risk is private information, and intermediaries which observe a noisy signal of each borrower’s default risks. To offer a lending contract, an intermediary incurs a fixed cost. Each lending contract is comprised of an interest rate, a borrowing limit and a s...

2 Abstract Correlated defaults have been an important area of research in credit risk analysis with the advent of a basket of credit derivatives. Even the simple credit derivatives should be considered a basket of two default risks since the bankruptcy risk of the derivative issuer is also a factor. Considering jumps in the asset value helps to model the surprise risk of default in a group of f...

Economic theory tells us that market and credit risks are intrinsically related to each other and not separable. We describe the two main approaches to pricing credit risky instruments: the structural approach and the reduced form approach. It is argued that the standard approaches to credit risk management ± CreditMetrics, CreditRisk+ and KMV ± are of limited value when applied to portfolios o...

This paper estimates both the conditional systematic and idiosyncratic risks in the housing market using the monthly housing price data on U.S metropolitan areas over the sample period Jan 1987 to Oct 2008. Different to previous studies, this paper decomposes the total risk in housing market into both the systematic and the nonsystematic parts by introducing new model-independent approaches for...

The financial crisis of 2007/08 has demonstrated that factors for financial distress of large parts of the economy depend to a large extent on the interrelations between the financial institutions. Risks threatening the financial sector can be decomposed into risks based in the individual factors for single institutions and risks which can be attributed to the financial system as a whole. This ...