Paige Skiba

Paige Marta Skiba
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley (PhD)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (BA)
Scientific career
FieldsLaw and economics
InstitutionsVanderbilt University School of Law
Websitehttps://law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/faculty/paige-skiba/index.php

Paige Marta Skiba is an American economist who is a 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]

  1. ^ "Paige Skiba Faculty Law School Vanderbilt University". law.vanderbilt.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  2. ^ "Paige Marta Skiba". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  3. ^ "Paige Marta Skiba". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  4. ^ White, Gillian B. (2015-11-05). "Borrowing While Poor". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  5. ^ Zywicki, Todd. "NYT on auto title pawns". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  6. ^ "What do struggling small businesses need most? Time – and bankruptcy can provide it". TheStreet.com. Retrieved 2020-08-18.