Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir - 2008
of recent U.S. house price appreciation and subsequent mortgage defaults. We identify the effect of shifts in the supply … of mortgage credit by exploiting within-county variation across zip codes that differed in latent demand for mortgages in … which we refer to as "disintermediation." The increase in disintermediation-driven mortgage supply to high latent demand zip …