Loan Product Steering in Mortgage Markets / Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Douglas D. Evanoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agarwal, Sumit.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Amromin, Gene.

Ben-David, Itzhak.

Evanoff, Douglas D.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22696.

NBER working paper series no. w22696

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

We present evidence of a particular type of loan steering in which lenders lead borrowers to take out high margin mortgage products. We identify this activity by comparing borrowers who were rejected by lenders but were subsequently approved by their affiliates (steered borrowers) to other initially rejected borrowers who obtained loans elsewhere. Although steered borrowers default less, they pay significantly higher interest rates and are more likely to borrow through contracts with unconventional features, such as negative amortization or prepayment penalties. Female borrowers, single borrowers with no co-signers, and borrowers in low-income locations are more likely to be steered.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2016.