During the Great Depression, Building and Loans (B&Ls), the leading home lenders, had a structure that mitigated the crisis. Borrowers were owners of the B&L and dissolution of the institution required a two-thirds majority vote. Using panel data from New Jersey in the 1930s, we find that this...

This study therefore is based on the determination of the behavior of stock markets during the period of the crisis of subprime via the phenomenon of integration and the contagion, the variable used in this study is none other than the stock index. The databases used in this study are daily data...

This Article will appear in a May 2009 symposium issue of the Florida International University Law Review on the global financial crisis. This Article argues that the current global financial crisis, which was first called the “subprime crisis,” demonstrates the need to revisit the division...

This study examines the effect of the opioid epidemic on bank mortgage lending decisions. We find that mortgage loan applications of risky borrowers with larger local opioid exposure are less likely to be approved. We use various fixed effects and matched loan analysis to identify consistent...

This study examines the effect of the opioid epidemic on bank mortgage lending decisions. We find that mortgage loan applications from risky borrowers with greater local opioid exposure are less likely to be approved. We use various fixed effects and matched loan analysis to identify any...