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.