Unintended consequences of the Home Affordable Refinance Program / by Phoebe Tian and Chen Zheng. : FB3-5/2024-11E-PDF
"We study the unintended effects of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) on mortgage borrowers. Originally designed to help financially distressed borrowers refinance after the 2008–09 global financial crisis, HARP inadvertently amplified the market power of incumbent lenders by introducing a cost differential between incumbents and their competitors. To assess the welfare implications of this cost advantage, we develop and estimate a structural model of dynamic refinancing decisions with lenders’ offers arising from a search and negotiation process. Our findings reveal that although the cost asymmetry was rectified by a 2013 policy, it still resulted in a welfare loss exceeding the impact of search frictions"--Abstract, page ii.
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| Ministère/Organisme | Bank of Canada, issuing body. |
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| Titre | Unintended consequences of the Home Affordable Refinance Program / by Phoebe Tian and Chen Zheng. |
| Titre de la série | Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2024-11 |
| Type de publication | Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal |
| Langue | [Anglais] |
| Format | Électronique |
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| Note(s) | "Last updated: April 11, 2024." Includes bibliographical references. |
| Information sur la publication | [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2024. ©2024 |
| Auteur / Contributeur | Tian, Phoebe, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (ii, 60 pages) : charts. |
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| Descripteurs | Mortgage loans -- Refinancing -- Canada. Prêts hypothécaires -- Refinancement -- Canada. |
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