What Are Interest Rates and How Do They Affect Borrowers?
We formally test the default risk premium hypothesis using the standard factor-risk pricing approach of Fama and MacBeth (1973). To measure systemic default risk, we track monthly changes in the charge-off rate for the overall credit card lending market. Then, we estimate how sensitive different credit card FICO portfolios are to this risk by regressing […]
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