Borrowing to live [electronic resource] : consumer and mortgage credit revisited / Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookSeries: James A. Johnson metro seriesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.Description: x, 289 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 332.70973 22
LOC classification:
  • HG3756.U54 B67 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : borrowing to live / Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky -- Consumer and mortgage credit at the crossroads / Eric S. Belsky, Ren S. Essene, and Nicholas P. Retsinas -- Where does it go? Spending by the financially constrained / Shawn Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano -- Financial decisionmaking processes of low-income individuals / Edna R. Sawady and Jennifer Tescher -- The legal infrastructure of subprime and nontraditional home mortgages / Patricia A. McCoy and Elizabeth Renuart -- The impact of state antipredatory lending laws : policy implications and insights / Raphael W. Bostic ...[et. al.] -- Behaviorally informed home mortgage credit regulation / Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir -- Interventions in mortgage default : policies and practices to prevent home loss and lower costs / Amy Crews Cutts and William A. Merrill -- Looking beyond our shores : consumer protection regulation lessons from the United Kingdom / Elaine Kempson.
Summary: "Dissects the current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and helps point the way out of the current impasse"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : borrowing to live / Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky -- Consumer and mortgage credit at the crossroads / Eric S. Belsky, Ren S. Essene, and Nicholas P. Retsinas -- Where does it go? Spending by the financially constrained / Shawn Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano -- Financial decisionmaking processes of low-income individuals / Edna R. Sawady and Jennifer Tescher -- The legal infrastructure of subprime and nontraditional home mortgages / Patricia A. McCoy and Elizabeth Renuart -- The impact of state antipredatory lending laws : policy implications and insights / Raphael W. Bostic ...[et. al.] -- Behaviorally informed home mortgage credit regulation / Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir -- Interventions in mortgage default : policies and practices to prevent home loss and lower costs / Amy Crews Cutts and William A. Merrill -- Looking beyond our shores : consumer protection regulation lessons from the United Kingdom / Elaine Kempson.

"Dissects the current state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and helps point the way out of the current impasse"--Provided by publisher.

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