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The Brazilian Payroll Lending Experiment

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  • Christiano A. Coelho

    (IBMEC-RJ)

  • João M.P. De Mello

    (Departamento de Economia, PUC-Rio, and CNPq)

  • Bruno Funchal

    (FUCAPE Business School and CNPq)

Abstract

In December 2003, the Brazilian Congress passed a law that led to a natural personal lending experiment. The law allows banks to offer loans with repayment through automatic payroll deduction, which, in effect, turns future income into collateral. We estimate the impact of the new law using auto loans as a control group. The law has caused a reduction in interest rates and an increase in the volume of personal credit. © 2012 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Christiano A. Coelho & João M.P. De Mello & Bruno Funchal, 2012. "The Brazilian Payroll Lending Experiment," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 94(4), pages 925-934, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:94:y:2012:i:4:p:925-934
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

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