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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Fannie"”.
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The life of Fannie Coddington Browning.
Fannie Coddington was born in New York on September 6, 1853. Her father, Thomas B. Coddington, was a wealthy metal merchant with locations in both New York and London. In 1868, Fannie moved with her family to London where she became acquainted with the poet, Robert Browning, and his family. Pen …
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Creating a terministic screen of "mothering" in Nella Larsen's Passing and Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
… the novels of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) and Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life (1932), critical attention mainly focuses on issues of race, class, or gender. Moreover, in regards to the novels, rhetorical consideration of the term “mothering” and the act of it within the novels garners even …
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FinTech mortgage lenders solving or exploiting a friction? evidence on risk layering and prepayment risk of conforming loans
… US. Using loan-level data on mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs), I find that compared to traditional lenders, Fintech lenders are more likely to address credit demand from low credit score borrowers. However, they may be able to exploit two frictions in the GSEs' pricing and …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… I analyze texts by Upton Sinclair, Djuna Barnes, Fannie Hurst, and Wallace Thurman fascinated with American difference, and the American System’s attempts to standardize it, I unveil a literary tradition outside the norms of the U.S. crusade against waste, and outside the standard modernist canon. …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Fannie Hurst engage, formally and thematically, with pragmatic ideologies underlying Progressive Era reforms, especially their general interest in de-personalizing maid/mistress relationships and privatizing domestic intimacy. This literature …
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Federal mandates and mortgage supply : regression discontinuity analyses of the community reinvestment and GSE Acts.
… (GSE) Act", laws requiring banks and the GSEs (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), respectively, to help improve credit access for low-income households and neighborhoods. While financial markets evolved rapidly since the early 1990's, I use discontinuities in the laws' eligibility rules to identify …
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Factors associated with delayed admission of high-risk pregnant women in labour at Lilongwe central hospital, Malawi
A probability sample of 130 high-risk pregant women who reported to labour ward with cervical dilatation of 5 centimetres and above were interviewed during the months of October to December 2001. Data was collected using a questionnaire
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
… years of the Government-Sponsored Enterprises’, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, efforts to expand access to homeownership among low-income households. This paper situates the events following the 1992 Housing Act within the New History of Capitalism to argue that the financial crisis was a feature of …
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VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
… at how southern gothic writers Beth Henley, Fannie Flagg and Flannery O'Connor use dark comedy in their works as defiant acts designed to question the status quo and reform the southern landscape by creating ruptures where marginalized people can assert themselves into the norms of American …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
… three-and-a-half-minute recorded text to include Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention; folk music by Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, and Ani DiFranco; live performances by Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin; the funk performance art of Betty Davis; and a contemporary concept …
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The future of the multifamily industry post-GSE conservatorship
… traded Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and placed them into conservatorship. Operating losses by these entities had created strong market concerns about their ability to function, threatening to adversely affect the US housing finance market. Over the last two …
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Perpetuating Precarity in Theory and in Practice: A Case Study of Work-integrated Learning in the Non-profit Sector in Northern Canada
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a process of curricular experiential education within a workplace or practical setting and is believed to give students “the skills and experiences they need to start a well-paying career after they graduate” (Trudeau, 2017). WIL is portrayed as a win-win, yet this …
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The Use of Disguise in Shakespearean Drama
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Impacts of Volatility Spillovers, Economic Volatility and Capital Inflows on Mortgage-backed Financial Markets
… as well as between the REITs and the Fannie Mae (FNM) and theFreddie Mac (FRE) mortgage-backed stocks. We analyze risk-return linkages using the GARCH-in-mean (GARCH-M) model. The presence of asymmetric effects of "bad" news and "good" news on conditional financial volatilities is …
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Essays in real estate finance
… using new extensive loan-level data from Fannie Mae over the sample period 1986 to 2010. We conceptualize a market for leverage per se and develop a theory of leverage demand-and-supply. Empirically, we estimate an interest rate elasticity of leverage demand of -0.37 or, equivalently, a …
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The effects of self-esteem, locus of control, and exposure to nontraditional occupations on the employment interests of women in poverty
This study analyzed the amount of variance in employment interests of a sample of poor women that may be attributed to self-esteem, locus of control, and exposure to nontraditional occupations and the interaction among these variables. A stratified random sample was selected from a population of …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Pauli Murray, and Mary Church Terrell among numerous other Black women were activists, abolitionists, and educators who devoted their lives to fighting for equality and justice. They were Black feminist pioneers who inspired Black …
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Three essays on consumer finance
… disclosures on the performance of loans owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac between 2002 and 2012. I find that imposing standards of conduct on lenders increases borrower defaults in the short term, and is correlated with a drop in foreclosures and fewer mortgage originations. Mandated disclosures …
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Secondary Mortgage Markets & Place-Based Inequality: Space, GSEs and Social Exclusion in the Philadelphia Region
… of the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the summer of 2008, US tax payers assumed responsibility for the vast majority of outstanding mortgage debt in the country. This dissertation examined the historical development and contemporary activity of the …
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