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Residential Mortgage Markets and the Cost of Mortgage Funds

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  • Patric H. Hendershott
  • Kevin E. Villani

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Early federal housing finance policy appears to have been largely directed at making mortgages more marketable. The creation of FHA, FNMA and FHLMC were designed to homogenize the mortgage instrument and to develop a secondary market for it. Apparently because of a lack of demand for marketability by investors, extensive trading of mortgages has not developed. Nonetheless, the fantastic growth in mortgage pools (as well as the unanticipated growth in FNMA holdings) has increased competition in the supplying of some intermediation functions (mortgage bankers have greatly expanded originations and servicing), has improved interregional flows of mortgage funds, and has given mortgage borrowers a greater access to capital markets generally. The principal result has been a decline in the mortgage rate relative to other market rates, although the inflation‐triggered explosion in the demand for mortgage funds in recent years appears to be offsetting the impact of the growth in federal credit broadly defined.

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  • Patric H. Hendershott & Kevin E. Villani, 1980. "Residential Mortgage Markets and the Cost of Mortgage Funds," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 8(1), pages 50-76, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:8:y:1980:i:1:p:50-76
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.00205
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    1. Patric H. Hendershott, 1980. "Mortgage Revenue Bonds: Tax Exemption with a Vengeance," NBER Working Papers 0447, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Andrew J Fieldhouse & Karel Mertens & Morten O Ravn, 2018. "The Macroeconomic Effects of Government Asset Purchases: Evidence from Postwar U.S. Housing Credit Policy," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 133(3), pages 1503-1560.
    2. Gavin A. Wood, 1990. "The Tax Treatment of Housing: Economic Issues and Reform Measures," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 27(6), pages 809-830, December.
    3. Patric H. Hendershott & Kevin E. Villani, 1981. "Housing Finance in the United States in the Year 2001," NBER Working Papers 0739, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Patric H. Hendershott & Herbert M. Kaufman (ary), 1992. "The market for home mortgage credit: recent changes and future prospects," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, pages 99-127.
    5. Hendershott, Patric H. & Van Order, Robert, 1989. "Integration of mortgage and capital markets and the accumulation of residential capital," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 189-210, May.
    6. Patric H. Hendershott & Chang-tseh Hsieh, 1980. "Inflation And The Growth In Home Mortgage Debt, 1964–78," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 3(2), pages 189-202, June.
    7. Patric H. Hendershott, 1991. "An Altered U.S. Housing Finance System: Implications for Housing," NBER Working Papers 3770, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Patric H. Hendershott, 1985. "Pricing Adjustable Rate Mortgages," NBER Working Papers 1548, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Amelia Pais, 2008. "Securitization and Rate Setting in the UK Mortgage Market," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 8(1‐2), pages 57-80, March.

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