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We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip …-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in … effective foreclosure-prevention program, because it would have only small and transient effects on the supply of mortgage loans. …
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A growing literature exploits credit score cutoff rules as a natural experiment to estimate the moral hazard effect of securitization on lender screening. However, these cutoff rules can be traced to underwriting guidelines for originators, not for securitizers. Moreover, loan-level data reveal...
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We study the effects of securitization on renegotiation of distressed residential mortgages over the current financial …–36% more likely to be renegotiated than comparable securitized mortgages (4.2–5.7% in absolute terms). Also, modifications of …
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We study the effects of securitization on renegotiation of distressed residential mortgages over the current financial … 36% more likely to be renegotiated than comparable securitized mortgages (4.2 to 5.7% in absolute terms). Also …
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Mortgage originators use credit score cutoff rules to determine how carefully to screen loan applicants. Recent research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that...
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