Bank Competition, Risk Taking, and their Consequences : Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage and Labor Markets /

Bank competition can induce excessive risk taking due to risk shifting. This paper tests this hypothesis using micro-level U.S. mortgage data by exploiting the exogenous variation in local house price volatility. The paper finds that, in response to high expected house price volatility, banks in U.S...

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Päätekijä: Xiaochen Feng, Alan
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/157
Linkit:Full text available on IMF