The boom in the subprime mortgage market yielded many loans with high LTV ratios. From a large proprietary database on subprime mortgages, we find that choice of mortgage rate type is not linear in loan sizes. A fixed rate mortgage contract is a popular choice when loan size, measured by LTV...

This paper examines pricing of subprime first mortgages by brokers and lenders using data on loans in originated between the first quarter of 1998 to the first quarter of 2006 at seven large subprime mortgage lenders. The results provide little evidence that most consumers obtaining mortgages...

This study analyzes whether bankruptcy asset exemptions and state foreclosure laws affect borrowers' decisions to default on their mortgages and the lenders' incentives to settle the default outside the foreclosure. Using a rigorously specified empirical model and accounting for endogenous loan...