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panel regressions, housing credit growth is significantly affected by changes in the maximum debt-service-to-income (DSTI … DSTI ratio limit has a significant effect on housing credit growth when we use mean group and panel event study methods …
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This paper uses a structural model to show that foreclosures played a crucial role in exacerbating the recent housing bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the market for non-foreclosures and reduce price and sales...
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-to-value levels and permissive mortgage approvals. We revisit the standard user cost model of housing prices and conclude that the …
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In this paper we examine the relationship between homeowners' bankruptcy decisions and their mortgage default decisions …
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Using individual-level data on homeowner debt and defaults from 1997 to 2008, we show that borrowing against the increase in home equity by existing homeowners is responsible for a significant fraction of both the sharp rise in U.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in...
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of recent U.S. house price appreciation and subsequent mortgage defaults. We identify the effect of shifts in the supply … of mortgage credit by exploiting within-county variation across zip codes that differed in latent demand for mortgages in … which we refer to as "disintermediation." The increase in disintermediation-driven mortgage supply to high latent demand zip …
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Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such policies is presented here, and conceptual issues are...
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exposed to the 2003 acceleration of the private label mortgage securitization (PLS) market witnessed a sudden and large … increase in mortgage originations and house prices from 2003 to 2006, followed by a collapse in house prices from 2006 to 2010 … volume from 2003 to 2006, and helped trigger the mortgage default crisis in 2007 …
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mortgage design interact with monetary policy? We answer these questions using a quantitative equilibrium life cycle model with … policy. Designs that raise mortgage payments in booms and lower them in recessions do better than designs with fixed mortgage … concentrate them in recessions outperform designs that spread payment reductions over the life of the mortgage. Front …
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We study the relationship between homebuyers' beliefs about future house price changes and their mortgage leverage … choices in the U.S. housing market. Our data combine mortgage financing information and a housing market expectations survey …
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