Mortgage default and low downpayment loans: The costs of public subsidy

Mortgage default and low downpayment loans: The costs of public subsidy

This paper presents a unified model of the default and prepayment behavior of homeowners in a proportional hazard framework. The model uses the option-based approach to analyze default and prepayment, and considers these two interdependent hazards as competing risks. The results indicate the sensitivity of default to the initial loan-to-value ratio of the loan and the course of housing equity. ...

Commercial Mortgage Workout Strategy and Conditional Default Probability: Evidence from Special Serviced CMBS Loans

This study recognizes that commercial mortgage default is not a one-step process and examines a previously unexplored aspect in the whole default process, that is the stage between the initial delinquency and default. We distinguish the servicers' behavior from the borrowers' behavior. A multinomial logit model is applied to analyze the servicers' choice of workout options and a proportional ha...

Residential Mortgage Default

although default rates on residential mortgages have been relatively low in recent years, policymakers and economists should still be concerned about mortgage default for several reasons. First, while the foreclosure rate in the u.s. has averaged only 1 percent over the past 20 years, there have been dramatic swings in regional default rates over this period. For example, in the early 1990s for...

GAO-05-874 Federal Student Loans: Challenges in Estimating Federal Subsidy Costs

Bankruptcy and the Market for Mortgage and Home Improvement Loans

This paper investigates the relationship between bankruptcy exemptions and the availability of credit for mortgage and home improvement loans. We develop a combined model of debtors’ decisions to file for bankruptcy and to default on their mortgages and show that the theory predicts positive relationships between both the homestead and personal property exemption levels and the probability of b...