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Essays on the US Mortgage Market

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2022-04-01

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Zhang, David Hao. 2022. Essays on the US Mortgage Market. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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This dissertation explores issues surrounding inequality and inefficiency in US mortgage markets. In the first chapter, I identify inefficiencies in the US mortgage market stemming from heterogeneous borrower refinancing tendencies. In the second chapter, I develop a new methodology to assess discrimination in the menus context and apply it to the US mortgage market. In the third chapter, I assess the sources of racial inequality in mortgage payments and find that it is primarily driven by racial differences in prepayment speeds.

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Finance, Economics

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