Forbearance by Contract: How Building and Loans Mitigated the Mortgage Crisis of the 1930s
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JEL classification:
- G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
- N22 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- R31 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2015-12-28 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-URE-2015-12-28 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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