Homebuilders, Affiliated Financing Arms and the Mortgage Crisis

Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Claudine Gartenberg, Anna Paulson and Sriram Villupuram

Economic Perspectives, 2014, issue Q II, 38-51

Abstract: The authors? findings indicate that homebuilder financing affiliates do make loans to observably riskier borrowers, but the loans made by homebuilders have lower delinquency rates than those made by unaffiliated lenders, even when loan and borrower characteristics are held constant.

Keywords: Homebuilders; mortgage loans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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