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Publications: Finance

Working Papers and Reports:

Meeting Multifamily Housing Finance Needs During and After the Credit Crisis: A Policy Brief

Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited Nicolas P. Retsinas
and Eric S. Belsky, eds.

W08-7: Housing Wealth Effects and the Course of the US Economy: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications Eric S. Belsky

W08-4: The Use of Social Capital in Borrower Decision-Making Cassi L. Pittman

UCC08-1: Consumer and Mortgage Credit at a Crossroads: Preserving Expanded Access while Informing Choices and Protecting Consumers Eric S. Belsky and Ren S. Essene (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University)

UCC08-2: Financial Decision Making Processes of Low-Income Individuals Edna R. Sawady (Market Innovations, Inc.) and Jennifer Tescher (Center for Financial Services Innovation)

UCC08-3: Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), John Thompson (H&R Block), and Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School)

UCC08-4: Fair Lending Testing: Best Practices, Trends and Training Paul C. Lubin (Informa Research Services)

UCC08-5: The Legal Infrastructure of Subprime and Nontraditional Home Mortgages Patricia A. McCoy (University of Connecticut) and Elizabeth Renuart (National Consumer Law Center)

UCC08-6: Imperfect Information and the Housing Finance Crisis Edward Golding (Freddie Mac), Richard K. Green (The George Washington University), and Douglas A. McManus (Freddie Mac)

UCC08-7: Enlisting Market Mechanisms to Police the Origination of Home Mortgages Howell E. Jackson (Harvard Law School)
Appendix A
Appendix B

UCC08-8: The Impact of Credit Price and Term Regulations on Credit Supply Mike Staten (The George Washington University)

UCC08-9: The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: Policy Implications and Insights Raphael W. Bostic (University of Southern California), Kathleen C. Engel (Cleveland State University), Patricia A.McCoy (University of Connecticut), Anthony Pennington-Cross (Marquette University), and Susan M. Wachter (University of Pennsylvania)

UCC08-10: Should Consumer Disclosures Be Updated? Thomas A. Durkin (Federal Reserve Board)

UCC08-11: Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice? Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth)

UCC08-12: Behaviorally Informed Home Mortgage Credit Regulation Michael Barr (University of Michigan), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University), and Eldar Shafir (Princeton University)

UCC08-18: Helping Consumers Make Better Mortgage Choices (forthcoming) Bill Apgar and Ren S. Essene (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University)

UCC08-13: Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School) and Daniel Schneider (Princeton University)

UCC08-14: Identifying, Managing and Mitigating Risks to Borrowers in Changing Mortgage and Consumer Credit Markets Eric S. Belsky (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University), Karl E. Case (Wellesley College) and Susan J. Smith (Durham University)

UCC08-15: Interventions in Mortgage Default: Policies and Practices to Prevent Home Loss and Lower Costs Amy Crews Cutts and Bill Merrill (Freddie Mac)

UCC08-16: Looking Beyond Our Shores: Consumer Protection Regulation Lessons from the UK Elaine Kempson (University of Bristol)

UCC08-17: Consumer Protection in French and British Credit Markets Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard Business School)

MM07-2: Mortgage Market Channels and Fair Lending: An Analysis of HMDA Data William Apgar, Amal Bendimerad and Ren S. Essene

MM07-1: Understanding Mortgage Market Behavior: Creating Good Mortgage Options for all Americans Ren S. Essene and William Apgar

W07-1: Growing Wealth, Inequality, and Housing in the United States Zhu Xiao Di

W05-11: The Dual Mortgage Market: The Persistence of Discrimination in Mortgage Lending William C. Apgar and Allegra Calder

W05-9: The Financial Returns to Low-Income Homeownership Eric S. Belsky, Nicolas P. Retsinas & Mark Duda

W05-8: Housing Wealth and Retirement Savings: Enhancing Financial Security for Older Americans William C. Apgar and Zhu Xiao Di

W05-2: Houses, Apartments, and Property Tax Incidence Jack Goodman

W05-1: Emerging Cohort Trends in Housing Debt and Home Equity George S. Masnick, Zhu Xiao Di, and Eric S. Belsky

W04-13: Housing Wealth Effects: Housing’s Impact on Wealth Accumulation,
Wealth Distribution and Consumer Spending
Eric Belsky and Joel Prakken

BABC: Building Assets, Building Credit: Symposium Proceedings

CCC04-1: Credit, Capital and Communities: The Implications of the Changing Mortgage Banking Industry for Community Based Organizations William Apgar, Allegra Calder, and Gary Fauth

BABC 04-1: Credit Matters: Low-Income Asset Building Challenges in a Dual Financial Service System Eric Belsky and Allegra Calder (Joint Center for Housing Studies)

BABC 04-2: High and Low SES Debtors: The Use of Psychological Measures to Determine Differences Richard L. Wiener (University of Nebraska), Karen Gross (New York Law School), Susan Block-Lieb (Fordham University), and Corinne Baron-Donovan (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

BABC 04-3: To Bank or Not to Bank? A Survey of Low-Income Households Christopher Berry (Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University)

BABC 04-4: From Unbanked to Homeowner: Improving the Supply of Financial Services for Low-Income, Low-Asset Customers Ellen Seidman and Jennifer Tescher (Shorebank Advisory Services)

BABC 04-5: Hitting the Wall: Credit as an Impediment to Homeownership Raphael W. Bostic (University of Southern California), Paul S. Calem (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and Susan Wachter (University of Pennsylvania)

BABC 04-6: Mortgage Choice: An Empirical Analysis
Using Data From 2002
Michael Lacour-Little (Wells Fargo)

BABC 04-7: Bringing Subprime Mortgages to Market and the Effects on Lower-Income Borrowers Ira Goldstein (The Reinvestment Fund)

BABC 04-8:
Exploring the Welfare Effects of Risk-based Pricing in the Subprime Mortgage Market Chip Case (Wellesley College), Eric Belsky (Joint Center for Housing Studies), and Michael Collins (NeighborWorks America)

BABC 04-9: The Changing Industrial Organization of Housing Finance and the Changing Role of Community-Based Organizations William C. Apgar (Joint Center for Housing Studies) and Allen Fishbein (Consumer Federation of America)

BABC 04-10: Refinance and the Accumulation of Home Equity Wealth Frank Nothaft and Yan Chang (Freddie Mac)

BABC 04-11: Credit Information Reporting and the Practical Implications of Inaccurate or Missing Information in Underwriting Decisions Robert B. Avery, Paul S. Calem, and Glenn B. Canner (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

BABC 04-12: The Role of Credit Scoring in Increasing Homeownership for Underserved Populations Hollis Fishelson-Holstine (Fair Isaac)

BABC 04-13:
Automated Underwriting: Friend or Foe to Low-Mod Households and Neighborhoods (DRAFT) Susan Gates, Cynthia Waldron and Peter Zorn (Freddie Mac)

BABC 04-14: Does the Fair Credit Reporting Act Promote Accurate Credit Reporting?
Michael E. Staten (Georgetown University) and Fred H. Cate (Indiana University)

BABC 04-15: Institutions and Inclusion in Saving Policy Michael Sherraden (Washington University) and Michael Barr (University of Michigan)

BABC 04-17: A Critical Examination of Financial Literacy Education (DRAFT) George McCarthy and Kathryn Gwatkin (Ford Foundation)

BABC 04-16: Progressivity and Government Incentives to Save Peter Orszag (Brookings Institution) and Robert Greenstein (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

BABC 04-18:
The Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Foreclosure Prevention
Roberto Quercia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Spencer Cowan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Ana Moreno (Family Housing Fund)

BABC 04-19:
Innovative Servicing Technology: Smart Enough to Keep People in Their Houses? Amy Crews Cutts (Freddie Mac) and Richard K. Green (George Washington University)

BABC 04-20: Democratizing Access to Capital, Michael Barr (University of Michigan)

BABC 04-21: Federal Regulation of Credit: The Cause or the Cure for Predatory Lending? Margot Saunders and Alys Cohen (National Consumer Law Center)

BABC 04-22: Cost Benefit Analysis of Debtor Protection Rules in Sub-prime Market Default Situations Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School)

BABC 04-23: Mortgage Credit and the Evolution of Risk-Based Pricing Frank L. Raiter and Francis Parisi (Standard & Poor's)

W03-8: Housing Wealth and Household Net Wealth in the United States:
A New Profile Based on the Recently Released 2001 SCF Data
Zhu Xiao Di

W03-5: The Importance of Housing to the Accumulation of Household Net Wealth
Zhu Xiao Di, Yi Yang, and Xiaodong Liu

W03-2: Essential Function Bonds: An Emerging Tool for Affordable Housing Finance William Apgar and Emily Whiting

W02-11: An Examination of Manufactured Housing as a Community- and Asset-Building Strategy William Apgar, Allegra Calder, Michael Collins. Mark Duda

W02-5: Housing Finance in the United States: The Transformation of the U.S. Housing Finance System; Kent W. Colton

W02-2: Intergenerational Wealth Transfer and Its Impact on Housing;
Zhu Xiao Di, Yi Yang

W01-1: Multifamily Housing in the 21st Century; Kent Colton and Kate Collignon.

BI01-1: The Impact of Changes in Multifamily Housing Finance on Older Urban Areas; Ann Schnare.

W00-2: The SOFOLES: Niche Lenders or New Leaders in the Mexican Mortgage Market?; Natalie Pickering.

W00-3: The Mexico Mortgage Market: Booms, Bust and Bail Out; Natalie Pickering.

W99-7: Estimating the Economic Impacts of Community Lending; Michael Collins, Eric S. Belsky, and Micky Tripathi.

W99-10: Expiring Affordability of Low-Income Tax Credit Properties: The Next Era in Preservation; Katherine Collignon.

W99-11: Understanding Predatory Lending: Moving Towards a Common Definition and Workable Solutions; Deborah Goldstein.
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