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. Comparing zip codes close to state borders with differing foreclosure laws, we show that foreclosure propensity and housing … scores, income, or education levels. The increase in foreclosure rates in non-judicial states persists for at least five …
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hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that …
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We evaluate the effects of the 2009 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that provided intermediaries with sizeable financial incentives to renegotiate mortgages. HAMP increased intensity of renegotiations and prevented substantial number of foreclosures but reached just one-third of its...
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We evaluate laws designed to protect borrowers from foreclosure. We find that these laws delay but do not prevent …. We find that the right-to-cure law lengthens the foreclosure timeline but does not lead to better outcomes for borrowers …
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This paper documents that the time required to initiate and complete a home foreclosure rose from about 9 months on … changes as foreclosure delay. We also document that many borrowers who are in foreclosure ultimately exit foreclosure and keep … their homes by making up for missed mortgage payments. We analyze the impact of foreclosure delay on the U.S. labor market …
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This paper takes a skeptical look at a leading argument about what is causing the foreclosure crisis and distills some … and empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that the efficiency of foreclosure for investors is a more plausible …
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mortgages. Bankruptcy and foreclosure similarly may be either substitutes or complements. In fact we show that both … foreclosure rates raise homeowners' probability of foreclosure. We provide estimates of the size of these effects. The paper …
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functions. We measure the impact of foreclosures on new mortgage lending using a panel of all B&Ls in 4 states. The foreclosure …
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: bankruptcy, foreclosure, eviction, and home sale. Rates of these adverse financial events peak around the time of disability … 0.81 percentage point (30 percent), and the likelihood of foreclosure and home sale among homeowners falls by 1 …
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. A foreclosure in the same association and at the same address depresses the sale price by 2.5 percent, but properties in … property coming on the market and toward a physical externality as the source of measured foreclosure externalities …
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