Browsing by Subject "consumer finance"

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    • An Empirical Examination of Consumer Litigation Funding 
      Xiao, Jean Yujing (2017-03-30)
      Department: Law and Economics
      This dissertation is the first work to empirically examine a growing type of credit for cash-constrained tort plaintiffs called consumer litigation funding (“CLF”), which takes the form of a nonrecourse loan. A plaintiff ...
    • Essays on Consumer Finance: Topics in Auto Title Lending 
      Fritzdixon, Kathryn Louise (2015-03-30)
      Department: Economics
      Title lending, in which a borrower uses his car title as collateral for a short-term, high-interest loan, is a growing part of the alternative financial market. These loans provide credit to a group of American who are not ...