Assessing the Role of Mortgage Fraud, Confluence, and Spillover in the Contemporary Foreclosure Crisis

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 299-327

  Baumer, Eric P ^a   Arnio, Ashley N ^a   Wolff, Kevin T ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

county; foreclosure; mortgage fraud; spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876985099     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2012.727843     Document Type: Article

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