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Mortgage Market Design: Lessons from the Great Recession

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  • Tomasz Piskorski

    (Columbia University)

  • Amit Seru

    (Stanford University)

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  • Tomasz Piskorski & Amit Seru, 2018. "Mortgage Market Design: Lessons from the Great Recession," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 49(1 (Spring), pages 429-513.
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