What is the microelasticity of mortgage demand to interest rates? Despite the importance of this parameter for models of monetary policy efficacy, little is known about the…
This paper analyses the performance of low-income and minority loans (LIMLs) from a large sample of fixed-rate mortgages purchased by Freddie Mac in the 1990s. Our focus is…
Nancy McArdle, Amy Davidson, Denise Hines
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July 30, 1999
W99-5: During the 1990s, U.S. population and employment have grown most quickly at the lower density fringes of metropolitan areas and in certain non-metropolitan…