Replication Data: Intermediation Frictions in Debt Relief – CARES Act Mortgage Forbearance
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You Suk Kim, Donghoon Lee, Tess Scharlemann, and James Vickery
Publication Date:
2024-05-22
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This dataset, hosted on Mendeley Data, contains the replication data for the study "Intermediation Frictions in Debt Relief: Evidence from CARES Act Forbearance" (Kim, Lee, Scharlemann & Vickery, 2024, Journal of Financial Economics). It includes loan-level mortgage data used to examine how intermediation frictions, such as servicer incentives and operational constraints, affected the take-up and implementation of mortgage forbearance provisions introduced under the CARES Act during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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