Lenders are frequently accused of mispricing the put option imbedded in non-recourse lending (Herring and Wachter, 1999 and 2003). Prior research (Pavlov and Wachter, 2004) shows one lender's incentives to underprice. Here we identify the conditions for a market-wide underpricing equilibrium. We...

We identify two data-related errors in the work of Ouazad and Kahn (OK, RFS 2021). Correcting either of these errors or both entirely reverses the original result, in OK’s code and in our independent implementation. The two corrections we implement are to use the correct FHFA conventional loan...