This paper analyses the impact of lending standards for residential real estate (RRE) loans on default rates, using a novel loan-level dataset from the European DataWarehouse (EDW) that covers eight euro area countries. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is the first to use, for...

We provide new evidence that credit supply shifts contributed to the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust. We collect original data on both government and private mortgage insurance premiums from 1999-2016, and document that prior to 2008, premiums did not vary across loans with widely different...

I. Abschnitt: Einordnung des Thema -- 1. Problemstellung und Zielsetzung der Arbeit -- 2. Stand der empirischen Forschung und Definition der Forschungslücke -- 3. Gang der Untersuchung -- 4. Konzeptionelle Eingrenzung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes -- II. Abschnitt:...

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...