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

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises that are central players in U.S. secondary mortgage … markets. Over the past decade, these institutions have amassed enormous mortgage- and non-mortgage-oriented investment …

-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with … insurance against aggregate shocks to mortgage default risk. We use this model to evaluate aggregate and distributional impacts … equilibrium housing investment, higher mortgage default rates, and lower welfare. The welfare effects of this policy vary …

The authors empirically analyze the price-setting behaviour of the major Canadian banks in the residential mortgage … market over the period 19912007. They use weekly posted prices of the major mortgage providers to study the degree of … competition in mortgage price setting. Their results suggest that the residential mortgage market is imperfectly competitive. They …

We present 12 facts about the mortgage crisis. We argue that the facts refute the popular story that the crisis … resulted from finance industry insiders deceiving uninformed mortgage borrowers and investors. Instead, we argue that borrowers … prices. We then show that neither institutional features of the mortgage market nor financial innovations are any more likely …