Distributional Implications of Government Guarantees in Mortgage Markets

Discounting in Mortgage Markets

Does Multiple Jeopardy Exist in Mortgage Markets?

Under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), lenders are required to gather and report information on applicants’ and coapplicants’ ethnicity, race, and gender. These three characteristics are used to define protected class and control groups used for fair lending analyses. Typically, each characteristic is analyzed in isolation. This study explores whether treatment in mortgage markets is af...

Overview of US mortgage markets - 2005

1.1 Overview of the US mortgage market Owner-occupied housing and the mortgages used to finance it are currently the single largest asset and liability on the household balance sheet. As shown in Graph 1, residential mortgage debt has grown so that households now owe just over $8 trillion. Consumer credit, which includes personal loans, auto loans and credit card balances, now stands at just ov...

Government Guarantees Behind Banks : International

To gauge governments’ contingent liabilities behind banking systems, we employ: Sovereign ratings (SOVBD); bank’s financial strength ratings (assessing solidity without external support; BFSR); bank’s overall credit ratings (government support reduces default probabilities; BDCR). We find: 1) BDCR and SOVBD are positively correlated, much more in developing countries, where sovereign guarantees...

Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Implicit Guarantees for Government-Sponsored Enterprises

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of implicit government guarantees of Government-Sponsored Enterprises obligations. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets where the government provides banks with insurance against aggregate shocks to mortgage default risk. We use this model to evaluate aggregate and distributional impacts of this government subsidy to own...