Conklin, James; Frame, W. Scott; Gerardi, Kristopher; … - 2018
An expansion in mortgage credit to subprime borrowers is widely believed to have been a principal driver of the 2002 … purchase mortgages to subprime borrowers. We also document that the expansion in speculative mortgage products and underwriting …-06 U.S. house price boom. Contrary to this belief, we show that the house price and subprime booms occurred in different …