BABC 04-23: Mortgage lenders have long used credit scores as a basis for estimating borrower risk. This risk differentiation is reflected in the coupon rate of the loan…
Ellen Seidman, Jennifer Tescher
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February 4, 2004
BABC 04-4: The paper argues that five factors have contributed to narrowing the gap between supply and demand: technological advances that lower costs and expand…
This paper analyses the performance of low-income and minority loans (LIMLs) from a large sample of fixed-rate mortgages purchased by Freddie Mac in the 1990s. Our focus is…