Mian, Atif; Sufi, Amir; Trebbi, Francesco - 2011
judicial process for a foreclosure sale have significantly lower rates of foreclosures relative to states that have no such … requirement. Using state laws requiring a judicial foreclosure as an instrument for actual foreclosures, as well as a regression … discontinuity design around state borders with differing foreclosure laws, we show that foreclosures have a large negative impact on …