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Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis<\/a> has a really interesting alternative explanation the global financial crisis of 2008: Maybe it wasn’t about financial industry insiders deceiving investors and homebuyers, financial innovations run amok, securitization that allowed mortgage originators to avoid having skin in the game or even about feckless, conflicted rating agencies assigning AAA ratings to junk.<\/p>\n

Maybe investors and homebuyers knew exactly what they were doing<\/strong>, had reasonably complete information and made wise decisions at the time, based on circumstances and expectations at the time. In fact, the paper<\/a> argues, they were reacting rationally to a classic bubble<\/a> in home prices.<\/p>\n

…borrowers and investors made decisions that were rational and logical given their ex post overly optimistic beliefs about house prices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The authors argue that in the early 2000’s, borrowers, bankers regulators, economists–basically everyone–had overly optimistic expectations that home prices would continue to rise. These expectations encouraged people to bid up the prices of homes and lenders to finance with less collateral, less income and less documentation.<\/p>\n

Both parties expected to profit by the transaction with little risk.<\/strong> Even if housing payments proved unaffordable, the homeowner could sell their home, pay off the mortgage and make a nice profit.  By the same token, ever-higher prices would protect lenders from default because the collateral (the home) backing their loan would prevent a loss.<\/p>\n

And yet, it obviously ended badly. There are several key lessons relevant to decision-making:<\/strong><\/p>\n