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Serving the NY area.

Research Dataset 1: gold_price_vs_pawn_activity

# gold_price_vs_pawn_activity

Synthetic time-series linking gold price movements to pawn loan volume and average ticket size.

Scenario: `high_gold_price_cycle`

Synthetic dataset for research and modeling. No real customer-level data included.

King Gold & Pawn is a multi-location pawn lender operating in New York including Freeport, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Westchester.

## What This Dataset Shows

Synthetic daily gold-linked lending data tracks how price movement, jewelry exposure, loan volume, and repayment behavior move together over time. This build contains 788 rows under the high gold price cycle scenario.

## Modeling Narrative

During periods of rising gold prices, jewelry-related loan values and metal-linked activity rise without making overall demand cartoonish.

## Key Observations

- Gold prices keep a directional time-series trend instead of flat noise, with a time correlation of 0.97.
- Average jewelry loan amounts move with gold prices, with a modeled correlation of 0.91.
- This build contributes 788 daily observations so macro shifts can be studied without losing regional variation.

## Versioning

- Version: `2026-03-29`
- Canonical hash: `bc846661653c7eaf1e3d39f290...

Research Dataset 2: pawn_loan_activity

# pawn_loan_activity

Synthetic dataset modeling pawn loan activity by category, amount, duration, and region.

Scenario: `baseline`

Synthetic dataset for research and modeling. No real customer-level data included.

King Gold & Pawn is a multi-location pawn lender operating in New York including Freeport, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Westchester.

## What This Dataset Shows

Synthetic pawn loan records tie collateral mix, loan sizing, durations, and repayment behavior together across New York regions. This build contains 13,560 rows under the baseline scenario.

## Modeling Narrative

Baseline operating conditions with steady category mix, realistic outliers, and moderate seasonal movement.

## Key Observations

- Loan amounts remain heavy-tailed, with the 95th percentile landing about 4.79x the median ticket size.
- Repeat customers default at 2.6% versus 8.0% for non-repeat borrowers.
- Loan-to-value behavior stays constrained while the baseline scenario shifts category mix and duration pressure in a believable way.

## Versioning

- Version: `2026-04-06`
- Canonical hash: `c20d00cb36c51ffbb4f22ff2e5dd7ad147951ed426818c365e61789543322348`
- Row count: `13560`

## Constraints

- Determi...

Research Dataset 3: regional_pawn_market_conditions

# regional_pawn_market_conditions

Synthetic macro and regional operating environment indicators for pawn and collateral lending.

Scenario: `consumer_stress_cycle`

Synthetic dataset for research and modeling. No real customer-level data included.

King Gold & Pawn is a multi-location pawn lender operating in New York including Freeport, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Westchester.

## What This Dataset Shows

Synthetic regional market indicators capture how consumer stress, loan demand, redeem behavior, and gold dependency vary across New York operating areas. This build contains 180 rows under the consumer stress cycle scenario.

## Modeling Narrative

Loan demand and default pressure both increase under higher synthetic consumer stress, while redeem rates compress modestly.

## Key Observations

- Consumer stress and default rates move together with a modeled correlation of 0.67.
- Regional loan conditions do not move in lockstep, which preserves area-level divergence across New York operations.
- This build includes 180 monthly regional records under the consumer stress cycle scenario for longitudinal analysis.

## Versioning

- Version: `2026-03-30`
- Canonical hash: `40f61a70a3d829e004...