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The housing boom that preceded the Great Recession was due to an increase in credit supply driven by looser lending …
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We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...
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at several maturities into components reflecting counterparty credit risk and funding-market liquidity. To account for … longer maturities, credit risk explains much of the time variation in Libor, reflecting in part fluctuations in the degree to … which default risk is priced in the interbank market. Our results are consistent with banks both under- and over …
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We explore a policy-induced change in borrower ability to shop for mortgages to investigate whether market competitiveness affects mortgage interest rates. Our paper exploits a discontinuity in the competitive landscape introduced by the Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP). Under HARP,...
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