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Banks And Inner Cities: Market And Regulatory Obstacles To Development Lending, Keith N. Hylton
Banks And Inner Cities: Market And Regulatory Obstacles To Development Lending, Keith N. Hylton
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Why are poor inner cities underserved by financial institutions, and why is it so difficult to find a solution to this problem? Explanations of the lending shortfall problem range between theories based on discrimination to the view that the lending market is working flawlessly. Drawing largely on the economic development literature, I elaborate an alternative explanation here. The asymmetric information theory I offer yields the prediction that urban minority communities will be underserved by financial institutions even in the absence of discriminatory intent.
I claim that the existing framework of banking regulation is in part responsible for the difficulty in …