The role of information externalities and scale economies in home mortgage lending decisions

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-85

  Blackburn, McKinley ^a   Vermilyea, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information externalities; Mortgage lending; Redlining

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751105209     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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