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Most mortgages in the United States are securitized through the agency mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) market. These … liquidity, leading to lower borrowing costs for households. Evaluation of potential reforms to the U.S. housing finance system …
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We explore the capital structure and governance of a mortgage-insuring securitization utility operating with government reinsurance for systemic or “tail” risk. The structure we propose for the replacement of the GSEs focuses on aligning incentives for appropriate pricing and transfer of...
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' monthly mortgage payments for a large sample of prime adjustable-rate mortgages. Applying a 26 percent average monthly payment … conforming adjustable-rate mortgages with loan-to-value ratios above 80 percent declines by 3.8 percentage points. If we assume … per dollar of balance for mortgages that refinance under HARP. …
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We describe a set of six design principles for the reorganization of the U.S. housing finance system and apply them to …
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Payday loans are widely condemned as a “predatory debt trap.” We test that claim by researching how households in Georgia and North Carolina have fared since those states banned payday loans in May 2004 and December 2005. Compared with households in all other states, households in Georgia...
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