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Lender losses on mortgage loans arise from a two-stage process. In the first stage, the borrower stops making payments if and when default is optimal. The second stage is a lengthy and costly period during which the lender employs legal remedies to obtain possession and execute a sale of the...
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). This research studies this transition process for a unique sample of subprime mortgages that were seriously delinquent on …
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consistent with the subprime applicants financing or refinancing their mortgages at relatively low loan-to-value ratios …
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Mortgage refinancing activity reached unprecedented high levels during 1990–2001. Using GARCH to control for heteroskedasticity and separating the data into regimes to control for potential structural changes over time, we estimate a model explaining changes in mortgage refinancing activity...
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realized excess returns on commercial mortgages. Our findings are striking. We find that average realized excess returns on … commercial mortgages are the lowest at the best times á la Stiglitz and Weiss (Am. Econ. Rev., 71:393–409, 1981). We also find … that excess realized returns on commercial mortgages are low when lenders are swamped with funds (which we measure by the …
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