This study proposes a lifetime utility maximization model, where borrowers choose optimal mortgage bundles including mortgage type, LTV and loan size to maximize their allocation of limited budgets between housing and non-housing consumptions. The model predicts that the mortgage bundles choice...

An estimated 12.6% of primary mortgage loans were simultaneously originated with a second loan from 2004 until 2008, although relatively little is known about how the presence of such subordinate loans affects the default decisions of borrowers. We use a novel data series of loan servicing...

This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German banks. We develop an EL model where LGD estimates are based on current collateral values and PD dynamics are estimated using a structural PVAR approach. We confirm empirically that...