The pricing of mortgages by brokers: An agency problems?

Journal of Real Estate Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-263

  LaCour Little, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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