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, which are free from CRA obligations, to banks in need of CRA-eligible mortgages. Our findings underscore the pitfalls of a …
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The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent financial crisis, despite the presence of various legal and economic constructs to mitigate them. A review of recent empirical research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests...
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mortgage tax from being levied on borrowers to being levied on banks; (ii) some areas, for historical reasons, were exempt from … smaller number of lending relationships, not working for the lender, or facing less banks in their zip-code, thereby …-full tax pass-through, the tax shift increases banks' risk-taking. More affected banks reduce costly mortgage insurance in case …
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Machine Learning model to estimate how the minority representation in ads affects which lender consumers choose for their …, minority representation has a larger impact among liberal-leaning consumers. In addition to our observational study, we conduct …
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The roles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become increasingly controversial in the modern world of residential mortgage finance. We describe the special features of these two companies and their roles in the mortgage markets. We then discuss the controversies that surround them and offer...
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-based capital requirements for large U.S. banks (Basel II).(...) …
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consumers. The payments of these mortgages depend on the corresponding housing market performance. Wefurther discuss the …
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This paper examines racial disparities in mortgage processing time prior to the global financial crisis. We find that Black borrowers are underrepresented and experience a longer processing time than White borrowers among the mortgages securitized by government-sponsored enterprises. At the same...
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This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgagecontracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modeled using quantile regressions. Wepropose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the taxtreatment of housing...
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The crisis enveloping global financial markets since August 2007 was triggered by actual and prospective credit losses on US mortgages. Was the United States just unlucky to have been the first to experience a housing crisis? Or was it inherently more susceptible to one? I examine the limited...
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