IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedkmb/00058.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Changing Credit Profile of Consumers: Aging Versus the Business Cycle

Author

Listed:
  • Taeyoung Doh

Abstract

The average consumer credit score reached a record high recently. While some commentators attributed this development to the cyclical rebound from the Great Recession, I find that the changing age distribution of credit applicants also played a significant role. Changes in demographics alone can explain 43 percent of the increase in the average score from 1999:Q1 to 2017:Q2.

Suggested Citation

  • Taeyoung Doh, 2017. "Changing Credit Profile of Consumers: Aging Versus the Business Cycle," Macro Bulletin, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 1-4, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedkmb:00058
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.kansascityfed.org/en/publications/research/mb/articles/2017/changing-credit-profile-consumers
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:fedkmb:00058. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Zach Kastens (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbkcus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.