Risks influencing loan rates: Bank of England paper

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The supply of credit is highly heterogeneous and interest rates are driven by factors other than the size of a loan, according to a paper published in February by the Bank of England's external monetary policy unit.

Fashioning a credit supply function through a data set made up of more than 600,000 mortgage contracts, the authors find that lending is shaped by a variety of risk factors, such as the characteristics of both the borrower and the economy at the time. "Higher income individuals and

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