The future of housing finance : restructuring the U.S. residential mortgage market / Martin Neil Baily, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baily, Martin Neil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mortgage loans--Government policy--United States.

Mortgage loans.

Mortgage loans--Government policy.

United States.

Housing--United States--Finance.

Housing.

Finance.

Physical Description:

x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Evaluates the options open to policymakers as they reassess the federal government's role in the U.S. residential mortgage market and consider a new system that reduces risk in mortgage lending, maintains a limited government role, and gradually removes the government-sponsored enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) from the mortgage market"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

1. The federal role in housing finance : principal issues and policy proposals / Douglas J. Elliott

2. The cycle in home building / Alan Greenspan

3. Toward a three-tier market for U.S. home mortgages / Robert C. Pozen

4. Government's role in the housing finance system : where do we go from here? / Karen Dynan and Ted Gayer

5. Eliminating the GSEs as part of comprehensive housing finance reform / Peter J. Wallison

6. Catastrophic mortgage insurance and the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Diana Hancock and Wayne Passmore

7. The economics of housing finance reform / David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815722083

0815722087

OCLC:

729346509