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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Autore principale: Dagher, Jihad
Altri autori: Fu, Ning
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/215
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF