Racial Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence Based on Processing Time

Bin Wei and Feng Zhao ()
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Feng Zhao: https://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/feng-zhao

No 2022-1, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: This paper examines racial disparities in mortgage processing time prior to the global financial crisis. We find that Black borrowers are underrepresented and experience a longer processing time than White borrowers among the mortgages securitized by government-sponsored enterprises. At the same time, Black borrowers are overrepresented and face a similar processing time among privately securitized mortgages. Additionally, Black borrowers are strongly associated with the faster segments of mortgage markets, faster lenders within each segment, and the types of loan products that are processed faster, all of which subsequently experienced higher defaults.

Keywords: processing time; lending standards; racial disparities; mortgage loans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G21 G23 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50
Date: 2022-01-13
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Note: The authors thank Raphael Bostic, Toni Braun, Chris Cunningham, Andrew Ellul, Isil Erel, Kris Gerardi, Mark Jensen, Benjamin Keys (discussant), Camelia Kuhnen (editor), Uday Rajan (editor), Philipp Schnabl, James Vickery (discussant), Larry Wall, and Vincent Yao for very helpful comments. They also thank participants in the 2021 Review of Corporate Finance Studies winter conference and the 2021 Atlanta Fed conference "Racial Inequality and Disparities in Financial Markets" for very helpful comments. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Banks for International Settlements, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, or the Federal Reserve System. Any remaining errors are the authors' responsibility.
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Published in 2022

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DOI: 10.29338/wp2022-01

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