Prepayment penalties in residential mortgage contracts: A cost-benefit analysis

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 631-673

  LaCour Little, Michael ^a   Holmes, Cynthia ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mortgage; Prepayment; Subprime and predatory lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 66449101172     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2008.9521651     Document Type: Article

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