decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral …

means of past mortgage deliquency rates. We give a statistical evidence that the non-normal model is much more suitable than …

Collateral is a widely used, but not well understood, debt-contracting feature. Two broad strands of theoretical … literature explain collateral as arising from the existence of either ex ante private information or ex post incentive problems … ex post theories of collateral are empirically dominant although the ex ante theories are also valid for customers with …

type of collateral that is comparable to the floating lien. We explore this natural experiment to identify how collateral …-in-differences approach, we find that following the change in the law and the loss in collateral value borrowers pay a higher interest rate on … credit by their bank. The reduction in collateral value also precedes a decrease in bank monitoring intensity and frequency …

We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries and observe that income … volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This pattern even holds for borrowers with higher …-income profiles if volatility in income is high enough. From this result we can draw the following conclusions: i) mortgage protection …

The meltdown in residential real-estate prices that commenced in 2006 resulted in unprecedented mortgage delinquency … following modifications. While modification terms are more favorable for weaker borrowers, greater reductions in mortgage … point decline in mortgage interest rate is associated with a nearly 4 percentage point decline in default probability. This …