What Fuels the Boom Drives the Bust : Regulation and the Mortgage Crisis /

We show that the lightly regulated non-bank mortgage originators contributed disproportionately to the recent boom-bust housing cycle. Using comprehensive data on mortgage originations, which we aggregate at the county level, we first establish that the market share of these independent non-bank len...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Dagher, Jihad
Outros autores: Fu, Ning
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/215
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF