Do Lenders Make Less-Informed Investments in High-Growth Housing Markets?

By Sophia Chen, Lev Ratnovski, Yangfan Sun

May 27, 2021

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Sophia Chen, Lev Ratnovski, and Yangfan Sun. Do Lenders Make Less-Informed Investments in High-Growth Housing Markets?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these markets and experience greater stock return volatility. When these lenders expand to high-growth markets, they also ration credit to a signiﬁcantly greater degree than when they ex-pand to other markets. Mean-variance analyses show that nonlocal lenders’ exposure to high-growth markets is associated with more risk, more eﬃciency, and more return on mortgage portfolios. Overall, these results imply that expansion to high-growth markets leads to a decline in screening and riskier investment by nonlocal lenders, which may reﬂect a risk–return tradeoﬀ in their portfolio strategy.

Subject: Financial institutions, Housing prices, Loans, Mortgages, Prices

Keywords: High-growth market, Housing prices, Lender control, Loans, Mortgages, Nonlocal lender, Nonlocal mortgage lender, Return volatility

Publication Details

Pages:

53
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2021/151
Stock No:

WPIEA2021151
ISBN:

9781513573380
ISSN:

1018-5941

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