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Recent years have seen a new trend in commercial bank lending—loans with no financial covenants. These covenant light, or cov-lite, loans raise concerns about excessive risk to lenders due to lack of monitoring. In this study, we examine the consequences of cov-lite loans. Focusing on rated,...
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We define a class of margin loans and derive the distribution of defaults. The default risk from an individual loan can be priced as a series of forward starting options with a knockout. Under simple price dynamics this has an explicit solution
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Provides an overview of car-title lending and its impact on U.S. households. Car-title lending — making expensive loans secured by the title of a vehicle a borrower owns outright — has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the U.S. over the last decade. CRL estimates that car-title...
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While Veterans Administration (VA) mortgages and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgages are often lumped together as “government mortgages”, the programs have significant differences, as do the borrowers who use them. In addition, delinquency rates on VA loans have consistently been...
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important determinant of the contraction of credit in the mortgage market, but as separate from the precipitous fall in credit … to liquidity risk contracted their supply of credit more sharply. I contribute to the identification of this effect by … relying on the use of micro-level data on US mortgage loan applications, which allows me to identify liquidity risk as an …
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Under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), banks can fulfill their obligation to meet local credit needs either by … credit for purchases has had its intended effect of making LMI credit more available by enhancing LMI loan liquidity. Using …
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attention is paid to the challenges that the real estate market and mortgage loans have been facing during the crisis caused by …
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