These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Dean Corbae (University of Texas, Austin)


Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM
Session: Consumer Bankruptcy and Credit Scoring: Recent Contributions (AEA)
Presiding: Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
Liran Einav (Stanford University and NBER)
Jon Levin (Stanford University and NBER)
William Adams (Citigroup)
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Information Technology and the Rise of Household Bankruptcy
Borghan Narajabad (Rice University)
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A Finite-Life, Private-Information Theory of Unsecured Debt
Jose-Victor Rios-Rull (University of Pennsylvania)
Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Dean Corbae (University of Texas, Austin)

Credit Scoring and Endogenous Stigma
Jim MacGee (University of Western Ontario)
Igor Livshits (University of Western Ontario)
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)

The Profitability of Payday Lending
Paige Marta Skiba (Vanderbilt University)
Jeremy Tobacman (University of Oxford)



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