willingness of originators to initiate loans. Since the supply of loanable funds is larger, mortgage rates are lower than would …

risk in the mortgage market raises the default rate and spreads to the rest of the economy, creating a recession. In our … model two shocks are well suited to replicate the subprime crisis and the Great Recession: the mortgage risk shock and the …. This policy is successful in stabilizing the mortgage market and makes all agents better off. …

This paper provides evidence for the propagation of idiosyncratic mortgage supply shocks to the macroeconomy. Based on … micro-level data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act for the 1990-2016 period, our results suggest that lender …-specific mortgage supply shocks affect aggregate mortgage, house price, and employment dynamics at the regional level. The larger the …

decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth … housing sector in times of high LTV ratios, which, through changes in mortgage lending and mortgage equity withdrawals (MEWs …

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 …

varies with the mortgage cycle …