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The Community Reinvestment Act and Targeted Mortgage Lending

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  • DREW DAHL
  • DOUGLAS D. EVANOFF
  • MICHAEL F. SPIVEY

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We analyze residential mortgage lending by banks in periods surrounding upgrades or downgrades in their ratings under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Empirical results indicate that upgraded banks had higher relative levels of lending than did downgraded banks prior to ratings changes. Additionally, both downgraded and upgraded banks increased lending following implementation of reforms to the CRA in the 1990s, which were intended to more closely align rating assessment with lending outcomes. Little support is provided, on the other hand, for a hypothesis that banks respond to downgrades by increasing lending (despite apparent incentives for them to do so). Copyright (c) 2010 The Ohio State University.

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  • Drew Dahl & Douglas D. Evanoff & Michael F. Spivey, 2010. "The Community Reinvestment Act and Targeted Mortgage Lending," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(7), pages 1351-1372, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:mcb:jmoncb:v:42:y:2010:i:7:p:1351-1372
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    1. Panagiotis Avramidis & George Pennacchi & Konstantinos Serfes & Kejia Wu, 2022. "The Role of Regulation and Bank Competition in Small Firm Financing: Evidence from the Community Reinvestment Act," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 54(8), pages 2301-2340, December.
    2. Agarwal, Sumit & Amromin, Gene & Ben-David, Itzhak & Evanoff, Douglas D., 2016. "Loan Product Steering in Mortgage Markets," Working Paper Series 2016-18, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics.

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