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Homebuilders, Affiliated Financing Arms and the Mortgage Crisis

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The authors? findings indicate that homebuilder financing affiliates do make loans to observably riskier borrowers, but the loans made by homebuilders have lower delinquency rates than those made by unaffiliated lenders, even when loan and borrower characteristics are held constant.

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  • Sumit Agarwal & Gene Amromin & Claudine Gartenberg & Anna L. Paulson & Sriram Villupuram, 2014. "Homebuilders, Affiliated Financing Arms and the Mortgage Crisis," Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, issue Q II, pages 38-51.
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