How do credit standards affect racial segregation? During the latest US mortgage credit boom, metropolitan areas that experienced larger increases in loan-to-income ratios and acceptance rates also experienced smaller declines in Black segregation. Bank liquidity and loan securitizability...

Structural models of location choice use observed demand to estimate household preferences. However, household demand may be partly determined by borrowing constraints, limiting households' choice set. Credit availability differs across locations, households, and years. We put forward a model of...