Danis, Michelle A. (contributor); … - 2005
whether delinquency has any predictive power of the future performance of a mortgage. Using a sample of subprime mortgages … from the loan performance database on securitized private-label pool collateral, we utilize a two-step estimation procedure … to control for the endogeneity of delinquency in an estimation of default and prepayment probabilities. We find strong …