Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir; Trebbi, Francesco - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8 (2013) 4, pp. 373-408
We examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional district, may have influenced U.S. government policy toward subprime mortgage credit expansion from 2002 to...