The impact of financial regulation on the stickiness of credit card lending rate: evidence from the USA

Ming Hua Liu, Tianyun Liu, Keshab Shrestha, Yang Zhang

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Abstract

We examine the effect of the U.S. Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 on the credit card lending rate pass-through. Our findings show that the Act had no impact on the long-term relationship between the lending rate and funding costs. However, in the short-term, banks were quicker to raise rates in response to an increase in funding costs after the implementation of the CARD Act. Our study shows that financial regulations can have unintended consequences.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1195-1213
Number of pages19
JournalReview of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Volume57
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Keywords

  • CARD Act
  • Cost of funds
  • Error correction model
  • Lending rates
  • U.S. credit card industry

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