This paper assesses the probable impact on S&Ls' profitability and participation in mortgage markets of The Depository …&L mortgage holdings between 1965 and 1979 and argues(contrary to conventional wisdom) that deposit-rate ceilings proved no more … and state restrictions on S&L loan opportunities and on mortgage lenders' ability to design and to price mortgage …

a house in coastal areas may be at increasing risk of defaulting on their mortgage. Commercial banks have the ability to … Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as Freddie Mac. In … or default. A structurally estimated model of mortgage pricing with asymmetric information suggests that bunching at the …

Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2% to 8% from 2010 to … 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech lenders … process mortgage applications about 20% faster than other lenders, even when controlling for detailed loan, borrower, and …

mortgage design interact with monetary policy? We answer these questions using a quantitative equilibrium life cycle model with … policy. Designs that raise mortgage payments in booms and lower them in recessions do better than designs with fixed mortgage … concentrate them in recessions outperform designs that spread payment reductions over the life of the mortgage. Front …

As the role of mortgage brokers in mortgage origination grew from insignificant in the 1980s to dominant in recent … regulated the business, largely by creating and tightening occupational licensing requirements for mortgage brokers. The … question of whether increased occupational licensing of mortgage brokers improves consumer outcomes is theoretically ambiguous …

The U.S. mortgage market has experienced phenomenal change over the last 35 years. This paper develops and implements a … technique for assessing the impact of changes in the mortgage market on households. Our framework, which is based on the …

mortgage payments and increasing their contributions to tax-deferred accounts (TDA). Using data from the Survey of Consumer … Finances, we show that about 38% of U.S. households that are accelerating their mortgage payments instead of saving in tax …