We empirically document that banks with greater exposure to high home price-to-income or price-to-rent ratio regions before the financial crisis of 2007--2009 have higher mortgage delinquency and charge-off rates and significantly higher probabilities of failure during the crisis even after...

We empirically document that banks with greater exposure to high home price-to-income ratio regions in 2005 and 2006 have higher mortgage delinquency and charge-off rates and significantly higher probabilities of failure during the last financial crisis even after controlling for capital,...