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Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are … institutional framework that governs mortgage lending lead to information loss in appraisals (that is, appraisals set equal to the … incidence of mortgage default at loan-to-value boundaries (notches) above which mortgage insurance rates increase. Appraisals …
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We investigate the effect of declining house prices on household consumption behavior during 2006-2009. We use an individual-level dataset that has detailed information on borrower characteristics, mortgages and credit risk. Proxying consumption by individual-level auto loan originations, we...
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Regulators express growing concern over predatory loans, which the authors take to mean loans that borrowers should decline. Using a model of consumer credit in which such lending is possible, they identify the circumstances in which it arises both with and without competition. The authors find...
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We study the evolution of US mortgage credit supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mortgage market … guarantees and loans to the riskiest borrowers. Mortgage backed securities purchases by the Federal Reserve also supported the …
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The distribution of combined loan-to-value ratios (CLTVs) for purchase mortgages has been remarkably stable in the U.S. over the last 25 years. But the source of high-CLTV loans changed during the housing boom of the 2000s, with private securitization replacing FHA and VA loans directly...
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The authors construct a quantitative equilibrium model of the housing market in which an unanticipated increase in the supply of housing triggers default mortgages via its effect on house prices. The decline in house prices creates an incentive to increase the consumption of housing space, but...
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perform worse than observably similar, nonsecuritized loans. Moreover, this effect is strongest in prime mortgage markets …
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, reaching and sustaining greater than 40% post-crisis. Using a novel database that contains the components of mortgage losses …, mortgage credit availability …
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We present a dynamic structural model of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers making payment decisions … the model using unique data sets that contain information on borrowers' mortgage payment history, their broad balance …
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mortgage lending by focusing on a large number of neighborhoods that became eligible and ineligible for CRA credit in the …
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