A leading explanation for the lack of widespread mortgage renegotiation during the financial crisis is the existence of … frictions in the mortgage securitization process. This paper finds little evidence that the securitization process impeded the … representative dataset on seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers from the first quarter of 2005 through the third quarter of 2008 …

We provide new evidence that credit supply shifts contributed to the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust. We collect … original data on both government and private mortgage insurance premiums from 1999-2016, and document that prior to 2008 …

conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing …

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 …

, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan …

mortgage market, and resulted in lower ZIP code denial rates, higher subprime origination rates, and higher subsequent default …

The late 1990s through the mid-2000s was a period of historic growth in mortgage lending and house prices and there is … with the view that the house price boom was caused by an expansion in the supply of mortgage credit, primarily benefiting … borrowers and neighborhoods which previously had the most limited access to mortgage credit. In particular, the evidence can be …