Paige Marta Skiba | |
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Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater |
University of California at Berkeley (PhD) University of Massachusetts at Amherst (BA) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Law and economics |
Institutions | Vanderbilt University School of Law |
Website | https://law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/faculty/paige-skiba/index.php |
Paige Marta Skiba is an American economist who is FedEx Research Professor Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University Law School, [1] and an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. [2] She is an expert on the causes of consequences of consumer borrowing at high-interest rates, such as payday loans and pawnshop loans. [3] She finds that these borrowers have few other options for credit, but often default on these loans after making expensive payments. [4] [5] During the COVID-19 recession, she was among a group of scholars of bankruptcy in the United States who proposed giving small businesses more time during the bankruptcy process to regain solvency. [6]