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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818599403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-13122-2

9786612131226

0-8157-0172-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

James A. Johnson metro series

Altri autori (Persone)

RetsinasNicolas Paul <1946->

BelskyEric S

Disciplina

332.70973

Soggetti

Consumer credit - United States

Mortgage loans - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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