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through the collateral channel tends to be longer-lived and more balanced across sectors. The collateral channel is a tenth or …
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When borrowers are delinquent, senior debtholders prefer liquidation whereas junior debtholders prefer to maintain their option value by delaying resolution or modifying the loan. In the mortgage market, a conflict of interest (“holdup”) arises when servicers of securitized senior liens are...
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Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
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Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
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I empirically analyze how changes in access to housing collateral affect homeowner borrowing behavior. To isolate the … role of collateral constraints from that of wealth effects, I exploit the fully anticipated expiration of resale price … collateral that ranges between $0.04-$0.13 and is correlated with homeowners' initial leverage. Additional analysis of …
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differs from repos in two important ways: the returned collateral can differ from those received, and the MBS ownership …
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Securitized mortgage appraisals routinely target pre-specified valuations, 45% of purchase loan appraisals exactly equal purchase prices, and appraisals virtually never fall below purchase prices. As a result, appraisals exceed automated valuation model (AVM) valuations 60% of the time and are...
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Using a sample of 26,892 rate quotes on home purchase loan applications, the current paper investigates interstate variation in residential mortgage interest rates. More specifically, we find posted rate quotes by lenders are directly related to measures of foreclosure process risk including the...
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Individuals and firms pledge collateral to mitigate agency costs or contracting frictions in a world with asymmetric … firms and individuals should default on their debt contract irrespective of the initial collateral pledged. In this paper …, we estimate default models and find that after controlling for mark-to-market asset valuation, initial collateral remains …
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poor collateral performance in HECM loans that has been attributed elsewhere to strategic undermaintenance …
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