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…
BABC 04-3: Recently there has been a surge of interest in the market potential for mainstream financial service firms to serve unbanked and marginally banked consumers.…
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…