Do Lenders Make Less-Informed Investments in High-Growth Housing Markets? /

Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these markets and experience greater stock return volatility. When these lenders expand to high-growth markets, they also ration credit to a significantly greater degree than when they ex...

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Auteur principal: Chen, Sophia
Autres auteurs: Ratnovski, Lev, Sun, Yangfan
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/151
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Résumé:Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these markets and experience greater stock return volatility. When these lenders expand to high-growth markets, they also ration credit to a significantly greater degree than when they ex-pand to other markets. Mean-variance analyses show that nonlocal lenders' exposure to high-growth markets is associated with more risk, more efficiency, and more return on mortgage portfolios. Overall, these results imply that expansion to high-growth markets leads to a decline in screening and riskier investment by nonlocal lenders, which may reflect a risk-return tradeoff in their portfolio strategy.
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