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Did the Community Reinvestment Act (Cra) Lead to Risky Lending?
Agarwal, Sumit - 2012
Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks' incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect of the CRA on lending activity. Our empirical strategy compares lending behavior of banks undergoing CRA exams...
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Fraudulent Income Overstatement on Mortgage Applications During the Credit Expansion of 2002 to 2005
Mian, Atif R. - 2015
Academic research, government inquiries, and press accounts show extensive mortgage fraud during the housing boom of … the mid-2000s. We explore a particular type of mortgage fraud: the overstatement of income on mortgage applications. We … define “income overstatement” in a zip code as the growth in income reported on home-purchase mortgage applications minus the …
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Repairing a Mortgage Crisis : Holc Lending and its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Courtemanche, Charles - 2010
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation purchased more than a million delinquent mortgages from private lenders between 1933 and 1936 and refinanced the loans for the borrowers. Its primary goal was to break the cycle of foreclosure, forced property sales and decreases in home values that was...
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Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation : Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program
Agarwal, Sumit - 2012
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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Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2010
EU financial safety nets are social contracts that assign uncertain benefits and burdens to taxpayers in different member countries. To help national officials to assess their taxpayers' exposures to loss from partner countries, this paper develops a way to estimate how well markets and...
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Financial Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances : 140 Years of Lessons
Jorda, Oscar - 2010
Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? In this paper, we study the experience of 14 developed countries over 140 years (1870-2008). We exploit our long-run dataset in a number of different ways. First, we apply new statistical tools to describe the temporal and spatial...
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External Imbalances and Financial Crises
Taylor, Alan M. - 2012
In broad perspective, there have been essentially two competing views of the global financial crisis, albeit there are some complementarities among them. One view looks across the border: it mainly blames external imbalances, the large-scale mix of unprecedented pattern current account deficits...
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Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09
Reis, Ricardo - 2010
This paper reviews the unconventional U.S. monetary policy responses to the financial and real crises of 2007-09, divided into three groups: interest rate policy, quantitative policy, and credit policy. To interpret interest rate policy, it compares the Federal Reserve's actions with the...
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Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing
Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
In a January 2009 lecture on the financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke advocated a new Fed policy of credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying of long term securities. We show that...
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Breaking the Spell with Credit-Easing : Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies
Gaballo, Gaetano - 2016
We show that credit crises can be Self-Confirming Equilibria (SCE), which provides a new rationale for policy interventions like, for example, the FRB's TALF credit-easing program in 2009. We introduce SCE in competitive credit markets with directed search. These markets are efficient when...
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