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To understand the effects of regulation on mortgage risk, it is instructive to track the history of regulatory changes …-changing regulation impacted mortgage lending and risk. We use cross-sectional differences in the time- series variation of delinquency … rates, conditional on initial interest rates, to detect the effects of regulation on mortgage delinquencies …
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reason for this stark difference appears to be that some of the most dominant firms in China are state-owned enterprises …
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evidence in support of the potential development of China's reverse mortgage market … their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several large Chinese cities saw almost no take … up. To ascertain the demand for reverse mortgages in China, we conduct and analyze two online surveys that focus …
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We construct housing price indices for 120 major cities in China in 2003-2013 based on sequential sales of new homes … within the same housing developments. By using these indices and detailed information on mortgage borrowers across these … household income, except in a few first-tier cities. While bottom-income mortgage borrowers endured severe financial burdens by …
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Using three unique micro datasets, we find that an unexpected and unprecedented loosening of China's LTV policy for non …-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 …
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moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …
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Two competing explanations for why consumers have trouble with financial decisions are gaining momentum. One is that people are financially illiterate since they lack understanding of simple economic concepts and cannot carry out computations such as computing compound interest, which could...
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Workers nearing retirement face many important, and often irreversible, choices. We collected detailed demographic and financial literacy data on over 1,500 workers nearing retirement at three large companies to assess how individuals are planning for retirement. Many respondents display limited...
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