Nonconforming Preferences: Jumbo Mortgage Lending and Large Bank Stress Tests

Andrew Haughwout, Donald Morgan, Michael Neubauer, Maxim Pinkovskiy and Wilbert van der Klaauw

No 1029, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The 2010s saw a profound shift towards jumbo mortgage lending by large banks that are regulated under the Dodd-Frank Act. Using data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, we show that the “jumbo shift” is correlated with being subject to the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) stress tests, and that financial regulation caused CCAR-regulated banks to change preference for nonconforming relative to conforming loans of similar size. We discuss potential mechanisms through which regulation could have affected bank incentives.

Keywords: Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR); mortgage lending; bunching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2022-09-01
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