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individual customer and multiple firms repeatedly. Using contractlevel data for the Canadian mortgage market, we provide evidence …
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amongst mortgage lenders and adds the idea of lender competition into this framework. Despite this addition, the results are … loans, selling most of their mortgages and making less profit off each mortgage while concentrated lenders do the opposite …
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Contrary to common perceptions, we find that fintech shadow banks do not possess technological advantages over traditional banks, which have had significantly more patent output and technology-based talent (digital capital) acquisitions over the past decade. Consequently, although fintech shadow...
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mortgage providers but the largest bank shifted the Dutch mortgage market from a competitive to a collusive price leadership … equilibrium. In May 2009, mortgage rates in The Netherlands suddenly rose against the decreasing funding cost trend to almost a …, and estimate response adjustments in cointegrating equations on a large data set of daily mortgage rates 2004 …
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Can regulation solve problems arising from a natural monopoly? This paper analyzes whether "unbundling", referring to regulations that enforce sharing of natural monopolistic infrastructure, prevents entrants from building new infrastructure. It models and estimates a dynamic entry game to...
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In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...
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We document that banking deregulation leads banks to offer lower initial rates on adjustable-rate mortgages to attract borrowers, but banks also shroud these contracts by increasing back-loaded resetting rates. More shrouding can be explained by higher proportion of naïve borrowers following...
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-level U.S. mortgage data by exploiting the exogenous variation in local house price volatility. The paper finds that, in … response to high expected house price volatility, banks in U.S. counties with a competitive mortgage market lowered lending …
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We study rating shopping on the MBS market. Outside of AAA, losses were higher on single-rated tranches than multi-rated ones, and yields predict future losses for single-rated tranches but not for multi-rated ones. Conversely, ratings have less explanatory power for single-rated tranches. These...
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Administration (FHA) in the primary mortgage market. Utilizing a sample of loan originations aggregated at the zip code level, the …
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