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almost exclusively on company and not mortgage finance. We identify four different "ideal types" of housing finance systems … circuits, and deposit-based and bond-based institutions as banking solutions. We adapt Alexander Gerschenkron's theory of …-dependent conclusion, noting that the more countries developed bond-based mortgage banks in the nineteenth century, the more they tended …
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In September 2008, the US government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship and entered into preferred stock purchase agreements with each. Since that time, these two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have received $148 billion in taxpayer-injected equity. By contrast, the...
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Adequate credit availability for small businesses is an important public policy issue because small businesses are essential for employment and economic growth for the economy. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 includes a provision that could potentially support financial institutions in the...
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