The Building Society Promise Access, Risk, and Efficiency 1880-1939
The Building Society Promise Access, Risk, and Efficiency 1880-1939
- ISBN 13:
9780198787808
- ISBN 10:
0198787804
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/01/2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The Building Society Promise shows that building societies did lend to working-class households before the First and Second World Wars, with some societies showing a greater commitment to working-class home ownership than others. What ultimately affected the outreach of individual societies was the quality of information they possessed, which in turn was largely determined by the types of agency networks they used to find and select borrowers. The phenomenal growth of some of these institutions in the inter-war period, however, and the ensuing competition which emerged between them, brought about profound changes in their firm structure which impaired their ability to reach out to lower-income households as efficiently as before. The findings of this research are relevant to both past and present debates about the optimal design of financial institutions in overcoming social exclusion in credit markets, and the deleterious effects that firm growth, market competition, and managerial self-interest can have on their performance and stability.