Authors:

  • John Y. Campbell

Excerpt

The Impact of Regulation on Mortgage Risk: Evidence from India. John Y. Campbell, September 2014, Paper. "We employ loan-level data on over a million loans disbursed in India between 1995 and 2010 to understand how fast-changing regulation impacted mortgage lending and risk. Our paper uses changes in regulatory treatment discontinuities associated with loan size and leverage to detect regulation-induced loan delinquencies. We also find that an acceleration in the classification of assets as non-performing resulted in substantially lower delinquency probabilities and losses given delinquency..." Link