The authors empirically analyze the price-setting behaviour of the major Canadian banks in the residential mortgage … market over the period 19912007. They use weekly posted prices of the major mortgage providers to study the degree of … competition in mortgage price setting. Their results suggest that the residential mortgage market is imperfectly competitive. They …

Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent … from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech … lenders process mortgage applications about 20 percent faster than other lenders, even when controlling for detailed loan …

This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German …-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we … to 2020 for the whole German banking sector. Our results show that loss rates in the residential mortgage portfolios of …

The U.S. mortgage market links homeowners with savers all over the world. In this paper, we ask how much of the flow of …, potentially reflecting higher mortgage servicing costs and an increased legal and regulatory burden. Taken together, the …