of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and contrast it to the U.S. system. We also note characteristics of the … Danish model that may be of interest as the United States considers further mortgage finance reform. In particular, the … borrowers the option to repurchase their mortgage at the market price, mitigating "lock-in" effects. Danish mortgage …

The Dodd-Frank Act tasks regulators with defining a Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) as an exemption from risk … retention for residential mortgage-backed securities. Congress instructs regulators to consider factors that result in lower … implications for current and future policy on residential mortgage securitization, risk retention, and disclosure …

these GSEs as mortgage market conditions deteriorated in 2007 and 2008. The analysis focuses on a key element of OFHEO …

for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We study a key component of OFHEOs model - 30-year fixed-rate mortgage performance - and … in a significant underprediction of mortgage credit losses and associated capital needs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac …

This article presents findings from the HMDA data through 2016. The number of mortgage originations in 2016 rose 13 …. The share of mortgages originated by nondepository, independent mortgage companies continued to rise in 2016. For the … first time since at least 1995, nondepository, independent mortgage companies accounted for a majority of both refinance and …