Default Risk in the U.S. Mortgage Market

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby C. Daglish ◽  
Jon A. Garfinkel ◽  
Jarjisu Sa-Aadu
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2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Cynthia Holmes ◽  
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Michael LaCour-Little ◽  

We combine loan data from distinct sources to compare and contrast multifamily mortgage lending in Canada and the U.S. After a general comparison of the multifamily housing markets in the two countries, we focus on loan pricing and non-price contract terms in the two environments. We find longer loan terms in the U.S. compared to Canada and attribute this to the greater liquidity available from a more established secondary mortgage market. We also find that while nominal rates are higher in Canada, mortgage spreads are actually lower, a result likely due to contract features that raise the cost of default for borrowers and restrict prepayments". In terms of loan performance, we found greater prepayment risk in U.S. mortgages and greater default risk in Canadian mortgages, although findings regarding default are limited by small sample size.


Author(s):  
Pedro Gete ◽  
Michael Reher

Abstract We show how securitization affects the size of the nonbank lending sector through a novel price-based channel. We identify the channel using a regulatory spillover shock to the cross-section of mortgage-backed security prices: the U.S. liquidity coverage ratio. The shock increases secondary market prices for FHA-insured loans by granting them favorable regulatory status once securitized. Higher prices lower nonbanks’ funding costs, prompting them to loosen lending standards and originate more FHA-insured loans. This channel accounts for 22% of nonbanks’ growth in overall mortgage market share over 2013–2015. While the shock creates risks for financial stability, homeownership also increases.


2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent W. Ambrose ◽  
Anthony Pennington-Cross ◽  
Anthony M. Yezer

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Vallascas ◽  
Jens Hagendorff
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The U.S ◽  

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Hurst ◽  
Benjamin Keys ◽  
Amit Seru ◽  
Joseph Vavra

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivis García

This article takes a long view of the U.S. housing market; from its inception as locally owned and operated Building Societies, through one of the first major U.S. housing crises in the early 1930s, as well as through the prosperous and surprisingly stable post-WWII era the so-called “Long Boom” during Keynesianism. As labor shortages became more severe, accompanied by stagflation and the simultaneous urban, fiscal, and oil crises of the late 60s and early 70s, key sectors of the U.S. economy rallied to dismantle established Keynesian policies. While the new policies associated with laissez–faire economic liberalism certainly aided in the mobility of capital, the overall economy as a result of this neoliberal turn became increasingly unstable and inequitable. This article seeks to add knowledge to the neoliberalism theory. The author concludes, based on a historical case study of the Savings and Loans industry, that neoliberalism was not a deterministic overthrow of neoliberal ideologues but a haphazard response to the contradictions of Keynesian logic. It is only from a historical approach that we may be able to understand the current housing crisis, foster policy innovation, and allow for institutional change within the U.S. mortgage market sector.


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