Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are … institutional framework that governs mortgage lending lead to information loss in appraisals (that is, appraisals set equal to the … incidence of mortgage default at loan-to-value boundaries (notches) above which mortgage insurance rates increase. Appraisals …

/2008 financial crisis, which was triggered by the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market. This research is particularly …

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 …

This paper reviews recent research on mortgage default, focusing on the relationship of this research to the recent … explicitly addressing reverse causality between rising foreclosures and falling house prices. Mortgage defaults were also a key … researchers to explore the central unsolved question in this area: why mortgage default is so rare, even for households with high …

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 …

this phenomenon may have played in increasing aggregate default risk during the mortgage crisis. We also document a … relationship between growth in home equity lending and high house price depreciation and first mortgage default during the downturn …

From 2007 to 2009 U.S. house prices plunged and mortgage defaults surged. While ostensibly consistent with widespread … “ruthless default,” analysis of detailed mortgage and house price data indicates that borrowers do not walk away until they are …

, and its relationship with mortgage default. We find that lender effort to collect soft information is intertwined with …

How did pricing for mortgage credit risk change during the years prior to the 2008 financial crisis? Using a database … from a major American bank that served as trustee for private-label mortgage-backed securitized (PLS) loans, this paper … risk factors, FICO score and loan-to-value ratios, have less of an impact on mortgage pricing over time. As the volume of …