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hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that …
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mortgages. Bankruptcy and foreclosure similarly may be either substitutes or complements. In fact we show that both … foreclosure rates raise homeowners' probability of foreclosure. We provide estimates of the size of these effects …
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bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the … the model fit both national and cross-sectional moments better than a model without foreclosure. When calibrated to the …
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This paper addresses two critiques by Mian and Sufi (2015a, 2015b) that were released in response to the results documented in Adelino, Schoar and Severino (2015). We confirm that none of the results in our previous paper are affected by the issues put forward in these critiques; in particular...
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We provide new facts on the debt dynamics leading up to the financial crisis of 2007. Earlier research suggests that distortions in the supply of mortgage credit, evidenced by a decoupling of credit flow from income growth, may have caused the rise in house prices and the subsequent housing...
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reinterpretation of the U.S. foreclosure crisis as more of a prime, rather than a subprime, borrower issue. Moreover, traditional … mortgage default factors associated with the economic cycle, such as negative equity, completely account for the foreclosure …
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Using individual-level data on homeowner debt and defaults from 1997 to 2008, we show that borrowing against the increase in home equity by existing homeowners is responsible for a significant fraction of both the sharp rise in U.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in...
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legislation in U.S. economic history: the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 and the Emergency …
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functions. We measure the impact of foreclosures on new mortgage lending using a panel of all B&Ls in 4 states. The foreclosure …
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. Comparing zip codes close to state borders with differing foreclosure laws, we show that foreclosure propensity and housing … scores, income, or education levels. The increase in foreclosure rates in non-judicial states persists for at least five …
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