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Lending Competition and Non-Traditional Mortgages*

Working paper #804
Arthur Acolin, Xudong An and Susan M. Wachter

We provide new perspectives on the rampant growth of non-traditional mortgages (NTMs) prior to the Great Recession by showing that local lending competition contributed significantly to the early growth of NTMs while growth of and non-bank lending. We also find that state level anti-predatory lending laws were more (less) effective in restraining the origination of NTMs in markets with higher (lower)levels of lending concentration and therefore lower (higher) competitive pressure.

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