This paper is concerned with determining whether commercial banks and mutual savings banks serve separable clienteles in the mortgage market. In order to test the hypothesis, determinants of mortgage lending terms at a major commercial bank and a large mutual savings bank were analyzed. The...

This article considers the broader impact of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) agreements-bank pledges to extend a certain volume of lending to targeted groups and communities-by examining whether they are associated with changes in lending to lower-income and minority communities in the markets...