Why Is Housing Finance Still Stuck in Such a Primitive Stage?

S-Tier
Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2014
Volume: 104
Issue: 5
Pages: 73-76

Score contribution per author:

8.043 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

The institutions for financing owner-occupied housing have not progressed as they should, and the financial innovation that has followed the financial crisis of 2007-2009 has not been focused on improving the risk management of individual homeowners. This paper lists a number of barriers to housing finance innovation, and in light of these barriers, the problems of some major innovations of the past and future: self-amortizing mortgages, price-level adjusted mortgages (PLAMs), shared appreciation mortgages (SAMs), housing partnerships, and continuous workout mortgages (CWMs).

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:104:y:2014:i:5:p:73-76
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-29