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Subprime mortgages represent a relevant wealth accumulation tool for low-income borrowers, and may promote efficient social policies. However, as recently brought to attention by the financial crisis, origination and distribution services are affected by strong information asymmetries and...
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are much higher than those observed at any point in the 2000s. We describe in this paper how non-bank mortgage companies …
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course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of TLTRO funding for mortgage loans to households had explicitly not been included …
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mortgage rates. The Federal Reserve's accumulation of MBS and Treasury securities lowered MBS yields and mortgage rates by more … turn significantly lower mortgage rates …
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The global financial crisis prompted the rapid development of macro-prudential frameworks and an increased reliance on borrower-based policy tools, which influence the demand for credit. This paper studies the optimal design of one such tool, a loan-to-value (LTV) limit, and its implications for...
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This paper investigates the spillover effects of the opioid epidemic on consumer finance: consumer delinquency; bank consumer portfolio risk; and consumer credit supply, using credit-bureau, credit-card-mail-solicitation, and regulatory bank data. For identification, we employ instruments...
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High levels of subprime consumer debt can create social problems. We test the effects of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) bailouts during the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 crisis, respectively, on this debt. We use over 11 million credit...
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High levels of subprime consumer debt can create social problems. We test the effects of the TARP and PPP bailouts during the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 crisis, respectively, on this debt. We use over 11-million credit-bureau observations of individual consumer debt combined with...
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Policymakers have expressed concern that some mortgage holders do not understand or correctly choose their mortgage … products, especially alternative mortgage products (AMPs) with back-loaded payments. Using a specially design question module … standard repayment mortgage. We show poor financial literacy and present bias raise the likelihood of choosing an AMP …
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