Heitfield, Erik; Sabarwal, Tarun - In: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 29 (2004) 4, pp. 457-477
This paper uses novel data on the performance of loan pools underlying asset-backed securities to estimate a competing risks model of default and prepayment on subprime automobile loans. We find that prepayment rates increase rapidly with loan age but are not affected by prevailing market...