In South Africa, there is currently little research available on mortgage defaultand the determinants of default. The purpose of this research was to evaluateand distinguish between mortgage specific factors (including borrower and loancharacteristics), driving mortgage default patterns in South...

In South Africa, there is currently little research available on mortgage defaultand the determinants of default. The purpose of this research was to evaluateand distinguish between mortgage specific factors (including borrower and loancharacteristics), driving mortgage default patterns in South...

Local authorities in North Carolina, and subsequently in at least 23 other states, have enacted laws intending to reduce predatory and abusive lending. While there is substantial variation in the laws, they typically extend the coverage of the Federal Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act...

Recession is one of the challenges to financial institutions. Economic growth is the causality and many firms disappear. Capital is lost and management skills are questioned. Efforts are always visible to the wisdom of management but how these efforts turn to be futile it is mystery. Man is...

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Este trabajo muestra la fuerte incidencia económica, así como los importantes efectos distorsionadores, de cambiar solo el sujeto pasivo de un impuesto (también conocido como «cambiar la incidencia estatutaria o legal del impuesto», es decir, un cambio en el agente sobre el cual se grava el...

In this paper we develop a probability of default (PD) model for mortgage loans, taking advantage of the Spanish Credit Register, a comprehensive database on loan characteristics and credit quality. From that model, we calculate different types of PDs: point in time, PIT, through the cycle, TTC,...