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Consumer Default, Credit Reporting, and Borrowing Constraints
Published: 05/15/2017 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12522
MARK J. GARMAISE, GABRIEL NATIVIDAD
Why do negative credit events lead to long‐term borrowing constraints? Exploiting banking regulations in Peru and utilizing currency movements, we show that consumers who face a credit rating downgrade due to bad luck experience a three‐year reduction in financing. Consumers respond to the shock by paying down their most troubled loans, but nonetheless end up more likely to exit the credit market. For a set of borrowers who experience severe delinquency, we find that the associated credit reporting downgrade itself accounts for 25% to 65% of their observed decline in borrowing at various horizons over the following several years.
Cheap Credit, Lending Operations, and International Politics: The Case of Global Microfinance
Published: 03/19/2013 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12045
MARK J. GARMAISE, GABRIEL NATIVIDAD
The provision of subsidized credit to financial institutions is an important and frequently used policy tool of governments and central banks. To assess its effectiveness, we exploit changes in international bilateral political relationships that generate shocks to the cost of financing for microfinance institutions (MFIs). MFIs that experience politically driven reductions in total borrowing costs hire more staff and increase administrative expenses. Cheap credit leads to greater profitability for MFIs and promotes a shift toward noncommercial loans but has no effect on total overall lending. Instead, the additional resources are either directed to promoting future growth or dissipated.