BABC 04-10: Spending financed by home equity extraction helps smooth household consumption and bolster the economy in economic downturns, but may reduce wealth…
This paper examines trends in prime-market mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income families and to families living in underserved areas, hereafter affordable lending,…
W00-2: The Mexican mortgage market experienced significant turbulence in the 1990s allowing a newly created financial intermediary, the Sociedades Financieras de Objeto…
W00-3: The Mexican government has struggled to curtail growth of bad bank loans since the currency devaluation of December1994. This paper examines borrower choice to…