Partial deregulation and competition: effects on risky mortgage origination
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Author(s)
Di Maggio, Marco
Kermani, Amir
Korgaonkar, Sanket
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We exploit the preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. Following the preemption ruling, national banks significantly increased their origination of loans with prepayment penalties relative to national banks in states without anti-predatory-lending laws. We highlight a competition channel: in counties where OCC-regulated lenders had larger market shares, non-OCC-regulated lenders responded by increasing their supply of contracts with riskier features, such as deferred amortization, which were not restricted by the state anti-predatory-lending law. Non-OCC lenders were able to lure borrowers into these higher-margin contracts by increasing their appeal with teaser rates.
Date Issued
2019-10
Date Acceptance
2019-02-01
Citation
Management Science, 2019, 65 (10), pp.4676-4711
ISSN
0025-1909
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
Start Page
4676
End Page
4711
Journal / Book Title
Management Science
Volume
65
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
Copyright 2024 INFORMS.
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3060
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-02-27