evidence that CFPB oversight significantly reduces the overall volume of mortgage lending. However, we find some evidence of …

Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are … institutional framework that governs mortgage lending lead to information loss in appraisals (that is, appraisals set equal to the … incidence of mortgage default at loan-to-value boundaries (notches) above which mortgage insurance rates increase. Appraisals …

of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio …