Measuring and monitoring the true level of mortgage delinquencies across an economy is essential for asset pricing and financial system stability. Yet public measures of mortgage default risk almost always use simple averages across pools of individual assets, including balance-sheet loans or...

In response to the wave of residential mortgage foreclosures in the past few years, federal, state and local government intervention programs have aimed to reduce the presumed social costs of foreclosures. Before the recent crisis, there was little economic research documenting foreclosure...

This paper studies the effects of collateral quality shocks on house prices, the price-rent ratio, and the macroeconomy in a dynamic general equilibrium model with housing collateral. Collateral quality is not as perfect as is typically assumed in the existing literature on collateral...

This paper studies the effects of collateral quality shocks on house prices, the price-rent ratio, and the macroeconomy in a dynamic general equilibrium model with housing collateral. Collateral quality is not as perfect as is typically assumed in the existing literature on collateral...

This paper studies the effects of collateral quality shocks on house prices, the price-rent ratio, and the macroeconomy in a dynamic general equilibrium model with housing collateral. Collateral quality is not as perfect as is typically assumed in the existing literature on collateral...