Subprime outcomes: Risky mortgages, homeownership experiences, and foreclosures

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This paper provides the first rigorous assessment of the homeownership experiences of subprime borrowers. We consider homeowners who used subprime mortgages to buy their homes, and estimate how often these borrowers end up in foreclosure. In order to evaluate these issues, we analyze homeownership experiences in Massachusetts over the 19892007 period using a competing risks, proportional hazard framework. We present two main findings. First, homeownerships that begin with a subprime purchase mortgage end up in foreclosure almost 20 percent of the time, or more than 6 times as often as experiences that begin with prime purchase mortgages. Second, house price appreciation plays a dominant role in generating foreclosures. In fact, we attribute most of the dramatic rise in Massachusetts foreclosures during 2006 and 2007 to the decline in house prices that began in the summer of 2005.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Papers ; No. 07-15

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Consumer Economics: Theory ; Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• Thema: Finanzmarktkrise ; Subprime-Hypothek ; Zwangsvollstreckung ; Wohneigentum ; Stadt ; Massachusetts

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gerardi, Kristopher ; Shapiro, Adam Hale ; Willen, Paul S.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• (wo): Boston, MA
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55625
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ