Reducing foreclosures: No easy answers

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 24, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Foote, Christopher ^a   Gerardi, Kristopher ^a   Goette, Lorenz ^b   Willen, Paul ^c  

^a FRB Boston ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c FRB Boston and NBER   (United States)

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EID: 77649084159     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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