Payday loans

by on February 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm in Economics | Permalink

This afternoon, let’s just do "Control-C" from Craig Newmark:

Paige Skiba (Vanderbilt Law School) and Jeremy Tobacman (Oxford), "The Profitability of Payday Loans":

Payday loans provide households
with expensive, short-term liquidity. This paper studies the
profitability of payday lending using standard financial data from CRSP
and SEC filings and loan-level data from a payday lender. Despite
charging e¤ective annualized rates of many percent, we find lenders’
firm-level returns differ little from typical financial returns. The
data are consistent with an interpretation that payday lenders face
high per-loan and per-store fixed costs in a competitive market.

I’d bet a similar analysis applies to the rent-to-own industry.

D February 22, 2008 at 12:34 pm

I have a relative who went into the rent-to-own industry a few years back, and he is making boat loads of money. It is so profitable, he is giddy. He got several of his friends to open stores as well, and they are making far far more money than they ever have before. My sample size is small, but anecdotally the rent-to-own industry does not seem to be as competitive as the payday loan business seems to be.

happyjuggler0 February 22, 2008 at 12:53 pm

D,

Theory suggests that if people like you keep making posts like that, and if the media cover it more (thus pointing out the profts margins), then your friends returns will eventually revert to the mean as competition piles in. They may as well enjoy it while it lasts.

By the way, “we”, and by “we” I mean society, should encourage more people to enter this industry, not less, for precisely the reason I listed above. Knocking down profit margins via competition, as opposed to legal costs, makes the customers better off (or less worse off) via lower prices.

Ziggurat February 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm

The most financially abusive business I have noticed are the low quality trade schools that advertise heavily on television for careers in fashion design, computer animation, etc. At least in the old days, they were pushing diesel mechanics training. This stuff is being funded by student loans – which can’t be discharged by bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, much higher quality training is available at junior colleges. There has been some press about this, primarily the Culinary schools. People are graduating with thousands in debt and are only able to get low wage jobs.

anomdebus February 22, 2008 at 7:07 pm

T4HofIA
More specifically, it sends an interrupt signal to the controlling process
rdrr :)

Bernard Guerrero February 22, 2008 at 10:56 pm

FWIW, there are huge regulatory differences from state to state. There might be a few natural experiments in there already.

ZBicyclist February 25, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Suppose we found out that dealing drugs and prostitution were average margin enterprises (we did, for some values of participating in these trades, with Sid Venkatesh’s work, referred to in Freakonomics).

This wouldn’t make them any more morally desirable, would it?

Similarly with taking advantage of the poor to make a buck yourself.

That said, this reminds me of Tyler’s post and article on 3rd world micro-credit: it’s not cheap, it’s just less exorbitant than organized crime, and with less likelihood of bodily harm.

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I agree with Bill. Payday loans should be used by people who want to, by adults who are capable of making their own rational decisions, people who are responsible.
Payday loans are invaluable resource for those times you find yourself in a financial bind.
For example, think of your child who just came home from school the other day and told you they need a physical to play sports; and the first practice is only two days away.
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Payday Loan Advocate October 11, 2008 at 1:21 am

Television portrays cultures in a fictitious way, dismissing the reality that it is not conductive to our progressive society. Extensively, communities such as Gays and African Americans have fought for the same equal treatment that has been taken advantage of by the majority, only to find their efforts descent by stereotype-promoting dramas and situation comedies. There are many individuals who do not believe at least most of the traits of characters who are based off of stereotypes from shows such as Good Times, Sanford and Son, and Will and Grace. Although our society has come a long way in its acceptance of people from all backgrounds, our entertainment has yet a long way to go. Let’s take the new CW television program for an instance. The TV show, “Easy Money,† is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, October 5, where they criticize their next target; payday loan companies. It portrays a similar objective as Sanford and Son and Will and Grace, airing a show that speaks about the industry in such a tedious way allowing our society to acquire a distorted picture of a legitimate business model. This could definitely lead to extreme measures such as Ohio’s HB 545, which will result in thousands of lost jobs and a further devastated economy. This provides additional proof that we can’t rely on Hollywood to learn about the world around us.

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Payday Loan Advocate October 16, 2008 at 4:43 am

After turning himself in to authorities, 20 year old David Kernell, son of Democratic Representative of Tennessee, Mike Kernell, is facing five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. He will be charged for hacking into GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin’s personal E-mail account. It is alleged that after reading the contents, he took a screen shot and posted it on a public Web site. The contents included email addresses, pictures, birthdays, and phone numbers of family members and more. To top it off, after resetting the password, he also posted the new one he had created, which allowed others to access the E-mail account themselves. Nonetheless, Kernell pleaded not guilty to the charges. Facing a $250,000 fine is intense. At $1,500 per loan, it would take about 167 individual payday loans to cover that outrageous expense.
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Payday Loan Advocate October 20, 2008 at 6:34 am

The probability of payday advance companies burning up in flames would make the Arizona Credit Union System very happy. Yet, their opinion is only marked by means of their own preference. The credit union is taking the next big step to wipe out the competition and draw all the former cash advance customers into their grip. In an E-mail campaign which is estimated to reach about 1.6 million credit union customers, System will encourage voters to reject Proposition 200. In contrast, organizations such as the Arizona Community Financial Services Association are supported by Prop. 200 that claim that the Proposition will eliminate extensions by introducing flexible payment plans, lower state loan fees, and will not only regulate Internet lending, but control the number of walk-in stores in Arizona. This resolution will help payday loan customers and keep industry employees away from the unemployment binge. No one wants to lose their jobs, particularly in our current economy.
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In the past few years, pay day loans companies have turned to the internet to attract more customers and reduce costs. Thanks to technology, multiple payday loan companies can view your application and compete for your business, resulting in the best rates and the unemployment rate is as well. It gets worse by the day, sending more and more workers to the unemployment line and to no fax payday loans if they still can. Rhode Island and Michigan just climbed above 10%, the Detroit area being hit hard by the auto industry turn down. The economic stimulus package is still in the works in Congress, and hopefully it will get some no fax payday loans to our economy.

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I have never been to those pay day loan offices..I hear their interest is sometimes pretty high. Some people work with an understanding boss or manager, so small loans through work might be possible. However a lot of people are too embarressed to ask anyone they know for help, so online companies do help.

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