UCC08-8: For centuries, legislated caps on loan interest rates (rate ceilings) have been advocated as a form of consumer protection in otherwise free market economies.…
BABC 04-14: The 1971 federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) was intended to promote greater accuracy in credit reporting in the United States. Inaccurate credit…
BABC 04-12: Credit scoring has helped to produce a robust credit environment and increase access to homeownership for millions of consumers. This paper examines the role…
W00-2: The Mexican mortgage market experienced significant turbulence in the 1990s allowing a newly created financial intermediary, the Sociedades Financieras de Objeto…
W00-3: The Mexican government has struggled to curtail growth of bad bank loans since the currency devaluation of December1994. This paper examines borrower choice to…
This report is modeled after TheState of the Nation's Housing reports produced by the Joint Center for Housing Studies since the early 1980s. These reports provide a…