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- 2020
- Working Paper
In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked
The reordering of transactions from “high-to-low” is a controversial bank practice thought to maximize fees paid by low-income customers on overdrawn accounts. We exploit multiple class-action lawsuits resulting in mandatory changes to this practice, coupled with...
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Keywords:
Overdraft;
Payday Loans;
Excessive Fees;
Underbanked;
Underserved;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Customers;
Income;
Business Processes
Di Maggio, Marco, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams. "In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28242, December 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Emily Williams
I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust...
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Keywords:
External Financing;
Monetary Policy Transmission;
Experiment;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates
Williams, Emily. "Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Working Paper, April 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Heterogeneity in Net-Interest Income Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and Non-Interest Expense Adjustment
By: Emily Williams
In this paper I document two new facts. First, bank net-interest margins (NIM) are insensitive to the short rate on average but this masks substantial heterogeneity in the cross section. I find cross sectional variation ranging from a -30bp to +40bp change in one...
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Williams, Emily. "Heterogeneity in Net-Interest Income Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and Non-Interest Expense Adjustment." Working Paper, March 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Did Technology Contribute to the Housing Boom? Evidence from MERS
By: Emily Williams and Stefan Lewellen
We examine the effects of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, or MERS, on mortgage origination volumes and foreclosure rates prior to the Great Recession. MERS was introduced in the late 1990s and significantly reduced the cost and time associated with...
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Williams, Emily, and Stefan Lewellen. "Did Technology Contribute to the Housing Boom? Evidence from MERS." Working Paper, February 2020.
- April 2019
- Case
Live Oak Bank
By: David S. Scharfstein, Emily Williams and Shawn O'Brien
Scharfstein, David S., Emily Williams, and Shawn O'Brien. "Live Oak Bank." Harvard Business School Case 219-103, April 2019.