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having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the mortgage depth in the country of ancestry, the higher the present value … of the monthly mortgage payments. Our results suggest that social norms regarding mortgage finance in the country of … ancestry matter in determining immigrants' mortgage finance in the host country. More specifically, the effect of social norms …
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We estimate the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending in lower-income neighborhoods. Using 2004-2016 panel data on census tracts, we apply a combined regression discontinuity and fixed effect method. We find that the number of small business loans increases by...
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We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...
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determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress … compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic … evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of …
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Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … reference households, and crucially so in countries with less expanded mortgage markets. Thus it appears that households …
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In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage …-Blinder decomposition to measure the extent to which this disparate treatment of lenders in mortgage pricing against immigrants is due to … borrowers can be attributed to discriminatory treatment. -- immigration ; discrimination ; mortgage pricing ; housing market …
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Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such searches locate documents which assist to write a successful loan … housing research. -- housing ; hardship letter ; loan delinquency ; mortgage ; National Delinquency Survey (NDS) ; financial …
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debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the … administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage … mortgage. Their home equity averages to about €-50.000. Couples with similar characteristics just above the qualification …
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Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
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This paper examines the gender gaps in the use of higher-order financial services such as investment and insurance, draws on the FinMark national-level data from Ghana and South Africa. The main observation is that females in South Africa are more likely to use general financial and investment...
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