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Mortgage Valuation under Optimal Prepayment

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  • LeRoy, Stephen F
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    Mortgage originators offer borrowers various combinations of "points"--loan fees--and coupon: high points and low coupon or low points and high coupon. In this article points are interpreted as a device serving to separate borrowers with high prepayment probabilities from those with low prepayment probabilities. Borrowers and lenders are treated symmetrically: both are risk neutral and both have complete and frictionless access to credit markets (implying that borrowers can finance points if they wish), except that borrowers' prepayment speeds are private knowledge. Equilibria are derived, both when borrowers cannot prepay voluntarily and when they can. Article published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies in its journal, The Review of Financial Studies.

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    Article provided by Society for Financial Studies in its journal Review of Financial Studies.

    Volume (Year): 9 (1996)
    Issue (Month): 3 ()
    Pages: 817-44

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    Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:9:y:1996:i:3:p:817-44

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    4. Longstaff, Francis A., 2002. "Optimal Recursive Refinancing and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management qt19k7479t, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
    5. Jonathan B. Berk, 1998. "A Simple Approach for Deciding When to Invest," NBER Working Papers 6678, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    8. Mark Doms & John Krainer, 2007. "Innovations in mortgage markets and increased spending on housing," Working Paper Series 2007-05, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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