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defaulters have both negative equity and enough liquid or illiquid assets to make one month's mortgage payment. This finding …
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mortgage contract designs that more directly pass through interest rate declines to borrowers can reduce racial mortgage …
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mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW) loan products were denied. Black and Hispanic homeowners' applications were denied at even … with purchase and rate/term refinance mortgage applications. Controlling for loan and borrower characteristics commonly …
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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program. The suits led to more than $5 billion in settlements and … exit has significantly reduced low-income households' overall access to mortgage credit. …
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In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale … mortgage distress on house prices. …
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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 …
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This paper tests the effectiveness of vacant property registration ordinances (VPROs) in reducing negative externalities from foreclosures. VPROs were widely adopted by local governments across the United States during the foreclosure crisis and facilitated the monitoring and enforcement of...
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