Federal Reserve Board
Stanford Law Class
Abstract
High-interest payday loans have actually proliferated in the last few years; therefore too have efforts to control them. Yet just how borrowers react to regulations that are such mostly unknown. Drawing on both administrative and study information, we exploit variation in payday-lending regulations to review the consequence of cash advance limitations on customer borrowing. We realize that although such policies work well at reducing lending that is payday customers react by shifting to many other kinds of high-interest credit (as an example, pawnshop loans) in place of old-fashioned credit instruments (as an example, charge cards). Such moving exists, but less pronounced, when it comes to lowest-income pay day loan users. Our outcomes declare that policies that target payday financing in isolation may be ineffective at reducing customers’ reliance on high-interest credit.
1. Introduction
The payday-lending industry has received attention that is widespread intense scrutiny in modern times. Payday loans—so called because that loan is typically due from the date associated with the borrower’s next paycheck—are typically very costly.