Risk-based pricing is an alignment of loan risk pricing with expected loan risk - charging a higher interest rate for higher risk (Yezer, 2002). This article shows systematic relaxation of risk pricing for sub-prime loans during the US housing bubble, a period that extended from 2001 to 2006....

This article shows that the rise in unemployment played a very significant factor in the rise of mortgage delinquencies during the Great Recession. Estimation results, moreover, show that changes in the Unemployment Rate (UR; from loan origination) as opposed to the level of the UR explain...