Why do national trends in house prices spread more to some cities than to others? This paper proposes an explanation of house price contagion based on migration spillovers…
W04-13: Over the past 50 years, housing expenditures have accounted for more than one fifth of the nation’s gross domestic product. But housing’s influence on the…
This paper examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in underserved areas, hereafter affordable lending,…