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Garriga, Carlos; Kydland, Finn E.; Šustek, Roman - 2015

Mortgages are prime examples of long-term nominal loans. As a result, under incomplete asset markets, monetary policy …, have larger real effects than transitory shocks. The transmission is stronger under adjustable- than fixed-rate mortgages …

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The role of securitization in mortgage renegotiation

Agarwal, Sumit; Amromin, Gene; Ben-David, Itzhak; … - 2011

We study the effects of securitization on renegotiation of distressed residential mortgages over the current financial … 36% more likely to be renegotiated than comparable securitized mortgages (4.2 to 5.7% in absolute terms). Also …

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Market-Based loss mitigation practices for troubled mortgages following the financial crisis

Agarwal, Sumit; Amromin, Gene; Ben-David, Itzhak; … - 2010

show that the majority of delinquent mortgages do not enter any loss mitigation program or become a part of foreclosure …

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The 2008 federal intervention to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Frame, W. Scott - 2009

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises that play a central role in U.S. residential mortgage markets. In recent years, policymakers became increasingly concerned about the size and risk-taking incentives of these two institutions. In September 2008, the federal...

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Equilibrium mortgage choice and housing tenure decisions with refinancing

Chambers, Matthew S.; Garriga, Carlos; Schlagenhauf, Don - 2007

The last decade has brought about substantial mortgage innovation and increased refinancing. The objective of this paper is to understand the determinants and implications of mortgage choice in the context of a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets. The equilibrium characterization...

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Unconventional monetary policy and risk-taking: Evidence from agency mortgage REITs

Frame, W. Scott; Steiner, Eva - 2018

We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) - a set of institutions identified by the Financial Stability Oversight Council as posing systemic risk. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity...

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Villains or scapegoats? The role of subprime borrowers in driving the U.S. housing boom

Conklin, James; Frame, W. Scott; Gerardi, Kristopher; … - 2018

purchase mortgages to subprime borrowers. We also document that the expansion in speculative mortgage products and underwriting …

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Agency conflicts in residential mortgage securitization: What does the empirical literature tell us?

Frame, W. Scott - 2017

origination and distribution of observably riskier loans. Low-documentation mortgages, for which asymmetric information problems … are acute, performed especially poorly during the crisis. Securitized low-documentation mortgages performed better when …

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The long-run effects of the 1930s redlining maps on children

Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2022

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...

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Spatial Lock-in: Do Falling House Prices Constrain Residential Mobility?

Chan, Sewin - 1998

down payment. A data set of mortgages is used to examine the magnitude of these constraints. Estimates show that average …

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