The effect of credit scoring on small-business lending

被引:130
作者
Frame, WS [1 ]
Srinivasan, A
Woosley, L
机构
[1] Fed Reserve Bank, Dept Res, Atlanta, GA USA
[2] Fed Reserve Bank, Credit & Risk Management Dept, Atlanta, GA USA
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D O I
10.2307/2673896
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F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
This paper examines the effect of credit scoring on small-business lending for a sample of large U.S. banking organizations. We find that credit scoring is associated with an 8.4 percent increase in the portfolio share of small-business loans, or $4 billion per institution. However, we fail to uncover any specific attributes of bank small-business credit-scoring pro.-rams that lead to this increased lending. Overall, we conclude that credit scoring lowers information costs between borrowers and lenders, thereby reducing the value of traditional, local bank lending relationships.
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页码:813 / 825
页数:13
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