The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the United States is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it unfolded sowed…
MF10-10: The boom and bust in nonprime and nontraditional mortgage lending in the UnitedStates is without precedent. The factors that fueled the boom and the way it…
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.…
RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
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…
Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…