moderating mortgage loan creation, and its effectiveness needs to be estimated empirically. This paper is unique in that it … analyzes the effect of LTV on mortgage lending, the direct channel of influence, using a large sample of banks in 10 Asian … show that economies with LTV polices have expanded residential mortgage loans by 6.7% per year, while non-LTV economies …

both primary and secondary mortgage market problems in the U.S. are accepted as the essential reasons of the current crisis … importance of real estate valuation in the origination of crisis and whether Turkish mortgage market has similar problems with …

We document the portfolio activity of federal housing agencies and provide evidence on its impact on mortgage markets … in agency mortgage holdings. Based on those regulatory events that we classify as unrelated to short-run cyclical or … credit market shocks, we find that an increase in mortgage purchases by the agencies boosts mortgage lending, in particular …