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- Title
Unobservable Risks in Mortgage Contract Choice.
- Authors
Liu, Bo; Sing, Tien Foo
- Abstract
This study proposes a lifetime utility maximization model where borrowers choose optimal mortgage bundles including mortgage type, loan-to-value and loan size to maximize their allocation of limited budgets between housing and nonhousing consumptions. The model predicts that the mortgage bundle choices by borrowers of different income and risk attributes explain significant variations in the ex post default risks of the borrowers. The empirical tests using sampled mortgages pooled in nonagency residential mortgage backed securities support the hypothesis that the optimal choice of mortgage bundles reveals hidden risk factors of borrowers, which, if ignored, could lead to misjudgment of ex post default of borrowers.
- Subjects
MORTGAGES; HYPOTHESIS; HOUSING; CONSUMPTION (Economics); MONEYLENDERS; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Real Estate Economics, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 4, p958
- ISSN
1080-8620
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/reec.12014