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asymptotically normal. Applying my estimator to the subprime mortgage crisis, I quantify what caused the foreclosure rate to triple … standards, with a 10% decline in home prices increasing subprime mortgage default rates by 50% …
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constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical … fall in mortgage rates. These facts are difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing boom to …
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during the crisis. Representatives from districts experiencing an increase in mortgage default rates are significantly more … likely to vote in favor of the AHRFPA. They are precise in responding only to mortgage related constituent defaults, and are …
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This paper uses a structural model to show that foreclosures played a crucial role in exacerbating the recent housing bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the market for non-foreclosures and reduce price and sales...
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We provide new, time-varying estimates of the housing wealth effect back to the 1980s. We exploit systematic differences in city-level exposure to regional house price cycles to instrument for house prices. Our main findings are that: 1) Large housing wealth effects are not new: we estimate...
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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In this paper we examine the relationship between homeowners' bankruptcy decisions and their mortgage default decisions …
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substantiates both supply and demand effects of past price trends in housing markets, particularly with respect to subprime mortgage …
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This paper documents a number of key facts about the evolution of mortgage debt, homeownership, debt burden and … subsequent delinquency during the recent housing boom and Great Recession. We show that the mortgage expansion was shared across … mortgage expansion was especially pronounced in areas with increased house prices, and the speed at which houses turned over …
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This paper examines mortgage outcomes for a large, representative sample of individual home purchases and refinances …
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