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Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence From the Subprime Mortgage Market

By Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Luc Laeven, Deniz O Igan

April 1, 2008

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Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Luc Laeven, and Deniz O Igan. Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence From the Subprime Mortgage Market, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 9, 2024
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This paper links the current sub-prime mortgage crisis to a decline in lending standards associated with the rapid expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house price increases. We also find that the underlying market structure mattered, with entry of new, large lenders triggering declines in lending standards by incumbent banks. Finally, lending standards declined more in areas with higher mortgage securitization rates. The results are consistent with theoretical predictions from recent financial accelerator models based on asymmetric information, and shed light on the relationship between credit booms and financial instability.

Subject: Credit booms, Financial institutions, Housing prices, Loans, Money, Mortgages, National accounts, Personal income, Prices

Keywords: Credit boom, Credit booms, Denial rate, Financial accelerators, Housing prices, Lending standard, Lending standards, Loans, Market share, Moral hazard, Mortgages, Personal income, Subprime loans, Subprime market, Subprime mortgage lender, Subprime mortgage market, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2008/106

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2008106

  • ISBN:

    9781451869675

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941