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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2024
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Working Paper No. WP 2024-16
Verlag: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Zusammenfassung: 
We estimate the causal effect of emergency credit on households' finances after a negative shock. To do so, we link application data from the U.S. Federal Disaster Loan program, which provides loans to households that have uninsured damages from a federally-declared natural disaster, to a panel of credit records before and after the shock. We exploit a discontinuity in the loan approval rules that led applicants with debt-to-income ratios below 40% to be differentially likely to be approved. Using an instrumented difference-in-differences research design, we find that credit provision at the time of a shock significantly reduces severe financial distress, decreasing the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy by 61% in the three years following the disaster. We explore mechanisms using additional quasi-experimental variation in interest rates, finding support for a liquidity-based explanation. Credit provision in a time of crisis has real consumption effects in the form of additional car purchases even 3 years after loan receipt. Our findings suggest that well-timed liquidity provided to households in acute need can have substantial and persistent positive effects.
Schlagwörter: 
Consumer credit
disaster loan
personal bankruptcy
delinquency
auto loans
climate risk
JEL: 
D14
G23
G28
H81
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