Residential mortgage lending and borrower risk: The relationship between mortgage spreads and individual characteristics

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-32

  Chiang, Raymond C ^a   Chow, Ying Foon ^b   Liu, Ming ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Credit sorting; Individual characteristics; Mortgage spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036245878     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015347516812     Document Type: Article

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