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The Missing Foundations of Housing Finance: Incomplete Markets, Fragmented Policies and Emerging Solutions in Guatemala
Cuevas, Mario; Lee, Sigfrido; Bonilla, Maria Isabel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In Guatemala there are substantial and growing imbalances in the housing market; at the same time, financial markets remain shallow and underdeveloped. The analytical framework applied in this paper starts by identifying the types of market failures responsible for the underdevelopment of the...
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New Paradigms in Banking, Financial Markets and Regulation?
Ayadi, Rym; masciandaro, donato; Quintyn, Marc G.; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...
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Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
Baker, Dean; Pelletiere, Danilo; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
It has been two years since the housing bubble began to deflate. In this time, home prices in major metropolitan areas have fallen more than 32.3 percent and the woes in the housing sector have spread to the broader economy. Where is the housing market today? Have we hit bottom? This paper,...
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The Gains from Right to Rent
Baker, Dean; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
mortgage interest and property tax deductions. Many of the homeowners currently facing foreclosure would likely be able to …
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The Right to Rent Plan
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
This issue brief discusses a plan that would effectively deal with the mounting problem of home foreclosures in this country. The main point of the plan is that those who are facing foreclosure should have the option to remain in their home for a substantial period of time as renters. There are...
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The Gains from Right to Rent
Baker, Dean; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
Though Congress and Presidents Bush and Obama put forth several different mortgage modification programs, the rate of … half a million permanent mortgage modifications as of July. The limited impact of mortgage modification plans has increased …
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Housing Finance in Mexico: Current State and Future Sustainability
Lopez-Silva, Marco; Abreu-Lastra, Raul; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
financial implications for participating mortgage issuers, as poorer applicants with lower job stability are injected into the …’s principal mortgage issuer, which contains information on borrowers’ repayment behavior. It is found that borrowers who received … not seem to have negative financial implications for participating mortgage institutions. …
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Form Follows Function: On the Interaction between Real Estate Finance and Urban Spatial Structure
Bieri, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The fundamental connection between the spatial development of cities and financial markets is a topic that has received little attention from either urbanists or economists. In this short piece, I argue that part of the post-crisis recovery is predicated on a multi-faceted understanding of the...
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Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending and its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Courtemanche, Charles; Snowden, Kenneth A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation purchased more than a million delinquent mortgages from private lenders between 1933 and 1936 and refinanced the loans for the borrowers. Its primary goal was to break the cycle of foreclosure, forced property sales and decreases in home values that was...
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Design, Structure and Implementation of a Modern Deposit Insurance Scheme
Bernet, Beat; Walter, Susanna - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
One of the important consequences to be drawn from the course of the financial crisis up to now is the insight that more attention must be paid in the future to the factors of liquidity, liquidity management and liquidity protection. That holds true for the protection of the stability of an...
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