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 mortgage secondary market fostered by securitization has reduced the impact of local funding shocks on credit supply …

mortgage credit risk by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We find that lenders charge Latinx/African-American borrowers 7.9 and 3 …

mortgage products. We identify this activity by comparing borrowers who were rejected by lenders but were subsequently approved …

-primary houses fueled the entire mortgage boom during 2014Q4-2016Q3. The mortgage expansion disproportionately increased the share of … mortgage markets. Our cross-city evidence provides empirical support for this channel …

This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers … prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately composed of the riskiest borrowers over time. Mortgages with … prepayment penalties allow lenders to lower mortgage rates and extend credit to the least creditworthy, with the largest benefits …

Looking back to the 1930s provides the opportunity to examine one severe mortgage crisis as we live through another …. This paper examines the development of the residential mortgage market during the 1920s, the institutional disruptions that … development of the residential mortgage market and led to a postwar system in which portfolio lenders dominated both local and …