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We investigate the relationship between immigrant status and mortgage delinquency in the United States. We find that …
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This paper develops and estimates a model to explain the behaviour of house prices in the United States. The main finding is that over 70% of the increase in house prices relative to trend during the increase of house prices in the United States from 1995 to 2006 can be explained by a pricing...
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The authors provide a detailed empirical analysis of Canadian city housing prices. They examine the long-run relationship between city house prices in Canada from 1981 to 2005 as well as idiosyncratic relations between city prices and city-specific variables. The results suggest that city house...
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The authors empirically analyze the price-setting behaviour of the major Canadian banks in the residential mortgage … market over the period 19912007. They use weekly posted prices of the major mortgage providers to study the degree of … competition in mortgage price setting. Their results suggest that the residential mortgage market is imperfectly competitive. They …
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due to different realizations of firm-specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper … that, in the steady state, a firm’s default probability rises with its leverage ratio and the level of uncertainty in the …
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The authors document leverage, capital and liquidity ratios of banks in Canada. These ratios are important indicators of different types of risk with respect to a bank’s balance-sheet management. Particular attention is given to the observations by different types of banks, including small...
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This paper develops a model of settlement system to study the endogenous structure of settlement networks, and the welfare consequences of clearing agent failure. The equilibrium degree of tiering is endogenously determined by the cost structure and the information structure. The degree of...
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In an investigation of banks’ loan pricing policies in the United States over the past two decades, this study finds supporting evidence for the bank risk-taking channel of monetary policy. We show that banks charge lower spreads when they lend to riskier borrowers relative to the spreads they...
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