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]

Selected works

• Skiba, Paige Marta, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Do payday loans cause bankruptcy?." The Journal of Law and Economics 62, no. 3 (2019): 485–519.
• Agarwal, Sumit, Paige Marta Skiba, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Payday loans and credit cards: New liquidity and credit scoring puzzles?." American Economic Review 99, no. 2 (2009): 412–17.
• Bhutta, Neil, Paige Marta Skiba, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Payday loan choices and consequences." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 47, no. 2-3 (2015): 223–260.
• Dobbie, Will, and Paige Marta Skiba. "Information asymmetries in consumer credit markets: Evidence from payday lending." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5, no. 4 (2013): 256–82.
• Hankins, Scott, Mark Hoekstra, and Paige Marta Skiba. "The ticket to easy street? The financial consequences of winning the lottery." Review of Economics and Statistics 93, no. 3 (2011): 961–969.