Marsha Courchane, Leonard Kiefer, Peter Zorn
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November 12, 2013
HBTL-11: Responses to the mortgage market crisis of the past decade led to myriad changes in the structure of the industry, expanded market regulations, and resulted in…
MF10-3: The recent tumult experienced by residential mortgage markets in the United States has left many struggling to determine what caused the crisis; what can be done…
Eric Belsky, Nicolas Retsinas, Mark Duda
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September 9, 2005
W05-9: Efforts to promote low-income homeownership have intensified over the past ten years. Under both regulatory and market pressures, the mortgage finance industry…
Susan Wharton Gates, Cindy Waldron, Peter Zorn
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February 13, 2004
BABC 04-13: Automated underwriting (AU) systems have become a tool of choice in mortgage lending decisions. While AU provides significant benefits to mortgage…
This paper analyses the performance of low-income and minority loans (LIMLs) from a large sample of fixed-rate mortgages purchased by Freddie Mac in the 1990s. Our focus is…
For the past three decades homeownership counseling has been an integral part of affordable lending in the United States. Myriad benefits have been attributed to these…
Robert Litan, Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, Susan White Haag
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April 20, 2000
In November 1999, President Clinton signed into law financial modernization legislation (referred to herein as the Financial Modernization Act (FMA)), perhaps the most…
J. Michael Collins, Eric Belsky, Nicolas Retsinas
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November 15, 1998
W98-5: Although the federal government provides tax incentives for homeownership, current tax provisions provide few incentives for lower-income families to buy a home…