Abstract:Despite a surging literature in investigating different impacts of corruption and/or anticorruption from firms' perspective, it is still unclear whether and how corruption and/or anti-corruption affect households' borrowing behaviour. In this paper, we focus on a Chinese online peer-to-peer lending market and analyse the impact of the recent China's anti-corruption campaign on households' borrowing costs. We employ a Difference-inDifferences (DID) estimation strategy and investigate three exogenous shocks rega… Show more
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