This paper examines how the stock market affects discrimination in mortgage lending. Comparing banks that went public … through initial public offering or acquisition with similar banks that failed to go public, we find that mortgage denial rates …

We measure market reactions to announcements concerning liquidity regulation, a key innovation in the Basel framework …. Our initial results show that liquidity regulation attracts negative abnormal returns. However, the price responses are … less pronounced when coinciding announcements concerning capital regulation are backed out, suggesting that markets do not …

) quantitative easing (QE) announcements on the mortgage market during the zero lower bound (ZLB) period. A total of 35 QE …-year mortgage rate, the 30-year Treasury rate and the spread between them. Announcements suggesting the start of a new … round of QE reduced the mortgage rate tremendously, while the effects of further news diminished. Announcements of an …