In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale … mortgage distress on house prices. …

done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: the borrower's choice to default on a mortgage and … illustrate that unaffordable loans, defined as those with high mortgage payments relative to income at origination, are unlikely …

mortgage finance. We describe the special features of these two companies and their roles in the mortgage markets. We then …

This paper examines two major forces that may soon increase competition in the U.S. secondary conforming mortgage … market: 1) the expansion of Federal Home Loan Bank mortgage purchase programs, and 2) the adoption of revised risk …

stabilization of the homeowner’s net wealth, price the instruments, and quantify the expected decrease in the mortgage default risk …

2005 and competition among mortgage lenders. The mortgage lending business, especially with the rise of the originate …-to-distribute model, had competitors with very different non-mortgage activities and regulation. I show that in local markets, when banks … increased their share of mortgages relative to lenders such as mortgage brokers, home prices started increasing at a faster pace …