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mortgage tax from being levied on borrowers to being levied on banks; (ii) some areas, for historical reasons, were exempt from … smaller number of lending relationships, not working for the lender, or facing less banks in their zip-code, thereby …-full tax pass-through, the tax shift increases banks' risk-taking. More affected banks reduce costly mortgage insurance in case …
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The agency conflicts inherent in securitization are viewed by many as having been a key contributor to the recent financial crisis, despite the presence of various legal and economic constructs to mitigate them. A review of recent empirical research for the U.S. home mortgage market suggests...
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, which are free from CRA obligations, to banks in need of CRA-eligible mortgages. Our findings underscore the pitfalls of a …
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switch banks. …
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I develop a structural model of mortgage demand and lender competition to study how leverage regulation affects the equilibrium in the UK mortgage market. Using variation in risk-weighted capital requirements across lenders and across mortgages with differential loan-to-values, I show that a...
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-standing and widespread Government-Sponsored Enterprises' (GSEs) mortgage default insurance subsidy on banks' equilibrium lending …
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This analysis introduces a theoretical framework for assessing the empirical discussion of asymmetric information amongst mortgage lenders and adds the idea of lender competition into this framework. Despite this addition, the results are generally consistent with existing empirical findings...
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We study the role of intermediaries (brokers) in the Canadian mortgage market. In this market, consumers can search for quotes in one of two ways: on their own or via a broker. We provide descriptive evidence that borrowers who transact through brokers are different from those who do not....
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largest) competitors divert applications and originations from other lenders. Facing a quickly-growing competitor, banks …
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