MARKET STUDIES
Consumer Credit and the American Economy
Oxford University Press, 2014
"If you think the development, history, and behavioral aspects of consumer credit are not exciting, read this comprehensive treatise of the topic as an emergent order of behavioral and parallel institutional rules, with no commanding identifiable leader. Particularly informative and original is their examination of the cognitive biases, experimental, and behavioral literature."
-Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University and Nobel Laureate in Economics
Financial Privacy, Consumer Prosperity, and the Public Good
Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 2003
American consumers have become accustomed to obtaining instant credit. The process requires that credit bureaus have easy access to sensitive financial information about individuals, compiled largely without their consent. This report examines the debate surrounding the role of the states in regulating these credit bureaus, especially in light of expiring amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which have allowed bureaus to continue these practices, exempting them from state laws that might obstruct them. How this controversy is resolved will have an important bearing on credit markets and financial privacy in the future. The authors make the case for continued federal preemption of the states in this area. Without it, the authors argue, the consumer credit system has developed in the United States would be put in jeopardy.
The Impact of Public Policy on Consumer Credit
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
The staff and friends of the Credit Research Center (CRC) at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business noted that the beginning of the new millennium also marked the beginning of the second quarter-century of the Center's existence. The Center began at the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University in 1974 and moved to the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in 1997. The silver anniversary of its founding offered the occasion for creating more than another listing of significant past accomplishments and milestones. Rather, it offered the opportunity and, indeed, a mandate for CRC as an academic research center, to undertake a retrospective and future look into the status of research questions pertaining to consumer credit markets. For this reason, the Center organized a research conference which was held in Washington, D. C
​
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
