Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Market

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 44, Issue 2-4, 2012, Pages 367-384

  Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni ^a   Igan, Deniz ^a   Laeven, Luc ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Credit booms; Credit demand; Financial accelerators; Lending standards; Mortgages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859137879     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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