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Amar Bhidé
Professor, Mailman School, Columbia University

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Formulaic Transparency: The Hidden Enabler of Exceptional US Securitization (New article in JACF)

January 5, 2018 Amar Bhidé 298 Views Banking industry,  Credit markets,  Regulations and regulators

This article in many ways, is the “debt” counterpart to my 1993 Journal of Financial Economics piece and offers an

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Opeds and MediaPublic Policy

Equifax Critics Are Missing the Bigger Point (Wall Street Journal op-ed)

September 14, 2017 Amar Bhidé 217 Views Banking industry,  Credit markets,  Moral hazard,  Regulations and regulators

Fair-lending laws turned consumers into anonymous credit scores—and a target for identity thieves. (Appeared in the September 14, 2017, print

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