2013
DOI: 10.1111/1756-2171.12019
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The impact of credit scoring on consumer lending

Abstract: We study the adoption of automated credit scoring at a large auto finance company and the changes it enabled in lending practices. Credit scoring appears to have increased profits by roughly a thousand dollars per loan. We identify two distinct benefits of risk classification: the ability to screen high-risk borrowers and the ability to target more generous loans to lower-risk borrowers. We show that these had effects of similar magnitude. We also document that credit scoring compressed profitability across de… Show more

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“…In line with this work, Pagano and Jappelli predict that if banks share information about their customers, they would increase lending to safe borrowers, thereby decreasing default rates (Pagano and Jappelli 1993;Jappelli and Pagano 2002). Relatedly, Einav, Jenkins, and Levin (2013) find that credit scoring provides the ability to target more generous loans to lower-risk borrowers among individuals with lower income. Other empirical studies tend to focus on the effects of credit bureaus and creditor rights using data from a cross section of countries (see, e.g., Djankov, McLiesh, and Shleifer 2007;Qian and Strahan 2007).…”
Section: Privacy and Credit Marketsmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…In line with this work, Pagano and Jappelli predict that if banks share information about their customers, they would increase lending to safe borrowers, thereby decreasing default rates (Pagano and Jappelli 1993;Jappelli and Pagano 2002). Relatedly, Einav, Jenkins, and Levin (2013) find that credit scoring provides the ability to target more generous loans to lower-risk borrowers among individuals with lower income. Other empirical studies tend to focus on the effects of credit bureaus and creditor rights using data from a cross section of countries (see, e.g., Djankov, McLiesh, and Shleifer 2007;Qian and Strahan 2007).…”
Section: Privacy and Credit Marketsmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…On the other hand, in the profit and loss statement interest rate also engage in managing the interest component entirely (Buiter & Panigirtzoglou, 2003). In addition, the interest rate also summarizes the way of whole business debt summary, including the receipt of debt, excellence of the debt, expectations of visions participation proportions and fixed floating mixture of the debt ( Brigo & Mercurio, 2006;Einav, Jenkins, & Levin, 2008).Interest rates are applied in various shapes like there are different interest rates for saving account and for taking loan. Central bank sets the interest rate to control the interest rate that transforms the interest rates to control the lively of financial system.…”
Section: Interest Ratementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As this study is motivated from an industrial consultancy project, our partner which provides financial technology to its customers required a new business model for acceleration in decision-making in the credit lending processes of lenders. Based on the fact that consumer lending has experienced a transition from traditional interview based processes to data-driven models for credit risk assessment, the size and the magnitude of channels influenced by the implementation of credit scoring should be considered (Einav, Jenkins & Levin, 2013).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%