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reallocation increased the riskiness of banks' mortgage lending. …
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conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing …In this paper the authors present an agent-based model of a credit network economy. The artificial economy includes … market, the labor market, the credit market and the housing market. A set of computational experiments, based on numerical …
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This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit … households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks in order to grant a mortgage. Results show that easier access to credit …
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inclusion of a broad set of loan-level controls and fixed effects. We also find that the spread between high and low credit …
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We investigate whether the securitization of corporate loans affected banks' lending standards. We find that during the boom years of the CLO business, loans sold to CLOs at the time of their origination underperform matched unsecuritized loans originated by the same bank. This finding is robust...
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This 2003 Congressional Testimony warns of the dangers of securitizing subprime loans. After defining "predatory lending" and describing the process of securitization, it argues that securitizing subprime loans has many dangers. While some have claimed that securitizing loans lowers loan costs...
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Recent years have seen a new trend in commercial bank lending—loans with no financial covenants. These covenant light, or cov-lite, loans raise concerns about excessive risk to lenders due to lack of monitoring. In this study, we examine the consequences of cov-lite loans. Focusing on rated,...
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I study the effects of an increase in the supply of local mortgage credit on local house prices and employment by … dissatisfied retail customers from a large, universal bank, UBS, to homogeneous local mortgage lenders. Mortgage lenders located … in the geographic distance between UBS branches and local mortgage lenders as an instrument for deposit growth, I find …
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This paper investigates whether mortgage loan servicers renegotiate a distressed loan differently depending on whether … the loan is held on their own books or by private investors. Using the proprietary mortgage metrics database that has …
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-seeking behavior. They supply larger credit due to higher demand, but at higher rates due to greater perceived risks. The resulting …
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