points increase in annual growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated banks to CRA-eligible census tracts relative to a … the CRA, however, do not show any change in their mortgage supply between these two types of census tracts after 1998. I … take advantage of this exogenous shift in mortgage supply within an instrumental variable framework to identify the causal …

enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated banks to CRA-eligible census … in mortgage supply of regulated banks. Consequently, these census tracts experienced a worse housing bust. I find that …

enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated banks to CRA-eligible census … in mortgage supply of regulated banks. Consequently, these census tracts experienced a worse housing bust. I find that …

government backing of the mortgage market. Nonetheless, the dominance of the crown corporation CMHC in the mortgage insurance … market concentrates a significant amount of risk in public finances. Improving competitive conditions in the mortgage …

associated with the liquidation of collateralized debt. Using the mortgage market as a laboratory, we conjecture that lenders …

This paper quantitatively accounts for the cyclical dynamics of key macroeconomic housing and mortgage market variables … using a tractable, searchtheoretic model of housing with equilibrium mortgage default. To explain these dynamics, the model …