On the economics of subprime lending

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-196

  Cutts, Amy Crews ^a   Van Order, Robert A ^b  

^a Freddie Mac   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Licensing; Option pricing; Secondary market; Signaling; Subprime mortgage market

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544381920     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-004-4878-9     Document Type: Article

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