Fed paper constructs ‘loan frontier’ for mortgages

Method mimics literature on estimating production frontiers

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Constructing measures of maximum possible loan origination can shed new light on how credit was allocated before and after the 2008 crisis, a working paper published by the Federal Reserve finds.

Elliot Anenberg, Aurel Hizmo, Edward Kung and Raven Molloy set out a method of constructing a “loan frontier” in the paper, Measuring Mortgage Credit Availability: A Frontier Estimation Approach. The method is based on the literature on production possibility frontiers, using borrower characteristics

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