We provide new evidence that credit supply shifts contributed to the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust. We collect … original data on both government and private mortgage insurance premiums from 1999-2016, and document that prior to 2008 …

misleading investors with respect to the default risk on mortgage backed securities (MBS). This paper argues that, to the … detriment of investors, the CRA did not incorporate information available to securitizers in their ratings of subprime mortgage … Moody's Investor Services projections of loss for these mortgage pools. The percent of principal balances rated triple-A is …