Mortgages, minorities and discrimination: A bank-specific approach

Housing Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-303

  Agarwal, Sumit ^a   Li, Shumin ^b   Mielnicki, Lawrence ^a  

^a Portfolio Risk Management   (United States)

^b Portfolio Analytics and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Minorities; Mortgage

Indexed keywords

BANKING; LENDING BEHAVIOR; MINORITY GROUP; MORTGAGE LENDING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037492607     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673030304236     Document Type: Article

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