Gerardi, Kristopher; Willen, Paul; Zhang, David Hao - 2020 - This version: September 2020
This paper documents large differences in mortgage prepayment behavior across racial and ethnic groups in the United … white borrowers have significantly lower prepayment rates compared with Non-Hispanic white borrowers, holding income, credit … in market interest rates, and was particularly pronounced during QE1. Differences in prepayment speeds result in large …