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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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Pricing Rate Caps on Default-Free Adjustable-Rate Mortgages [PDF]
A model is developed and utilized in this paper to value a life of loan interest rate cap on an ARM that reprices monthly. The value of the cap is seen to depend importantly on both the slope of the term structure and the variance of the one month rate ...
Anthony B. Sanders +2 more
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Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Contractor Friendly Mortgages' Quick Files
The Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent ...
Contractor Friendly Mortgages
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Mortgage innovation, mortgage choice, and housing decisions [PDF]
This paper examines some of the more recent mortgage products now available to borrowers. The authors describe how these products differ across important characteristics, such as the down payment requirement, repayment structure, and amortization ...
Don Schlagenhauf +2 more
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A mortgage is a form of security for a loan, the purpose of which is often to finance the purchase of a house. This type of mortgage is known as acquisition mortgage.
Mark P. Thompson, Martin George
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The social life of money for children
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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A Risk Management Model for MBS Issuers [PDF]
Most previous studies that developed Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS) models focused on investors, but the model that is presented here is specifically for MBS issuers.
Eddie Lam
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Competition in mortgage markets: the effect of lender type on loan characteristics [PDF]
This article examines how competition among lenders affects mortgage loan characteristics. The author finds that, on average, banks issue safer mortgages than independent mortgage banks.
Richard J. Rosen
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"Best-advice" and the "true" mortgate term. Actuaries' endowment advice principles revisited [PDF]
In 1999 the Financial Services Authority recommended that a standard repayment mortgage was the “best advice” for Independent Financial Advisors to give to essentially all new mortgage customers seeking the best value repayment vehicle.
Andrew Godley
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