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

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

constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical … fall in mortgage rates. These facts are difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing boom to …

The reallocation of mortgage debt to low-income or marginally qualified borrowers plays a central role in many … explanations of the early 2000s housing boom. We show that such a reallocation never occurred, as the distribution of mortgage debt … with respect to income changed little even as the aggregate stock of debt grew rapidly. Moreover, because mortgage debt …

schwerwiegenden Problemen. Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Beitrags wird zum einen erläutert, warum Versicherungsbetrug als ein …

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 …

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 …

discussions of the mortgage market to see what market participants thought would happen, the authors find that analysts, on the …