This special section of the journal provides an empirical examination of the mortgage market to help identify key market participants, how incentives affected behavior, and how participation in the market changed over time. The findings will help to identify lessons that can be applied to the...

Mounting foreclosures and disclosures of abusive lending practices led many states to adopt new anti-predatory lending (APL) laws. Researchers have examined the impact of such laws on credit flows and the cost of credit. This research extends the literature by examining whether the market...