This article represents an extension of the expansive credit risk and credit migration literature, prominent in pricing risk of corporate bond and securities investment, to an analysis of the drift of consumer credit scores. A rich data set of residential mortgages is used in the development of...

House price volatility; lender and borrower perception of price trends, loan and property features; and the borrower's put option are integrated in a model of residential mortgage default. These dimensions of the default problem have, to our knowledge, not previously been considered altogether...

House price volatility; lender and borrower perception of price trends, loan and property features; and the borrower's put option are integrated in a model of residential mortgage default. These dimensions of the default problem have, to our knowledge, not previously been considered altogether...