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Remarks at the Economic Press Briefing on Homeownership and Housing Wealth, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City
Remarks at the Economic Press Briefing on Homeownership and Housing Wealth, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
Working Paper
Automated Underwriting and Housing Market Dynamics
We study how the 1990s adoption of now widely-used automated mortgage underwriting systems affected credit supply, house prices and their comovement across locations. The effects go well beyond processing improvements. By implementing more complex, statistically-informed lending rules, the systems allowed households to borrow more, pushing up house prices. Furthermore, by transmitting a common set of credit standards across lenders, the new technology increased credit and house price synchronization. Together, our results illustrate how new lending technology can generate correlated credit ...
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Beyond the macroeconomy
Remarks at the Economic Press Briefing, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.