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The Impact of Public Policy on Consumer Credit / edited by Thomas A. Durkin, Michael E. Staten.

The Impact of Public Policy on Consumer Credit presents a collection of research papers and discussions commissioned to commemorate the silver anniversary of Georgetown University's Credit Research Center in 1999. Nine topics serve as focal points for the volume, with the general theme ̀What do...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Durkin, Thomas A.
Other Authors: Staten, Michael E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
Subjects:
Economics.
Microeconomics.
Finance.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: The Evolution of Consumer Credit in the United States
  • 3: The Growth of Consumer Credit and the Household Debt Service Burden
  • 4: Personal Bankruptcies
  • 5: Disclosure as a Consumer Protection
  • 6: Financial Literacy in the U.S. and Efforts toward Credit Education
  • 7: Trends in Equal Access to Credit Products
  • 8: The Impact of Credit Scoring and Automated Underwriting on Credit Availability
  • 9: Privacy, Consumer Credit, and the Regulation of Personal Information
  • 10: Consumer Loan Securitization
  • Appendix 1: Contributors' Biographies
  • Appendix 2: Credit Research Center Publications, 1974-1999.

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