Assessing the necessity and efficiency of the Community Reinvestment Act

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 143-172

  Avery, Robert B ^a   Bostic, Raphael W ^b   Canner, Glenn B ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Community Reinvestment Act; Mortgages

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044434383     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2005.9521537     Document Type: Article

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