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Informal Credit Markets, Judicial Costs and Consumer Credit: Evidence from Firm Level Data

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How does the punishment for default affect repayment behavior? We use administrative data provided by the leading Italian lender of unsecured credit to the household sector to investigate the effect of two potentially important factors: judicial efficiency and the availability of informal credit from family and friends. By making economic assumptions we can place upper and lower bounds on these effects. We find that the availability of informal credit reduces repayment, while variation in court enforcement has no significant effect. Moreover, households with access to informal credit are more likely to borrow from our lender

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Paper provided by Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy in its series CSEF Working Papers with number 155.

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Keywords: Households Borrowing; Informal Credit Markets; Asymmetric Information;

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  1. Alena Bicakova, 2007. "Does the Good Matter? Evidence on Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection from Consumer Credit Market," Economics Working Papers ECO2007/02, European University Institute.
  2. Charles Yuji Horioka & Shizuka Sekita, 2010. "The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets: Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data," NBER Working Papers 15631, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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