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Supply restrictions, subprime lending and regional US house prices
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Heebøll, Christian - 2015
, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan …
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The impact of peer-to-peer lending on small business loans
Kim, Jin-hyuk; Stähler, Frank - 2020
We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...
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Informal benchmarks as a source of regulatory threat in unregulated utility sectors
Söderberg, Magnus - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent unregulated local monopolies attempt not to evoke the introduction of a formal price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet expectations by setting prices that imitate neighbours' prices....
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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility
Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor); Lai, Kon-sun (contributor) - 2006
Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price...
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Assessing market (dis)integration in early modern China and Europe
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Eberhardt, Markus; Liang, Yusheng; … - 2015
This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of industrialization. Our empirical strategy focuses on the dynamics of price convergence and accounts for general equilibrium effects arising from common shocks and network...
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Using bankruptcy to reduce foreclosures : does strip-down of mortgages affect the supply of mortgage credit?
Li, Wenli; Ishani, Tewari; White, Michelle J. - 2014 - Current version: February 2014
We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip …-term reduction in mortgage interest rates and a small, short-term increase in mortgage approval rates, but no long-term effects, and … the circuit court decisions did not consistently affect mortgage terms. These results suggest that strip-down would be an …
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Optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts : the effects of potential prepayment and default
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2014
Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers … of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research …'s (1986a) model, using it to characterize optimal contracts in the absence of mortgage termination, and then exploring how …
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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
This paper reports on ongoing research on the interactions between product regulation and labor market outcomes. In particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany,...
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Taxing banks : an evaluation of the German bank levy
Buch, Claudia M.; Hilberg, Björn; Tonzer, Lena - 2014
Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic...
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Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking, securitization, and their role for US business cycle fluctuations
Peersman, Gert; Wagner, Wolf - 2014
Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a...
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