The Imitation Game: The Imitation Game: How Encouraging Renegotiation Makes Good Borrowers Bad

Abstract We show that commercial mortgage borrowers behave opportunistically to attempt to obtain principal reductions. We develop a model in which lenders cannot perfectly observe borrowers’ use values and renegotiation is costly. We then exploit a tax rule change that reduced the cost of renegotia...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Review of financial studies 2024-12, Vol.37 (12), p.3648-3709
Hauptverfasser: Flynn, Sean, Ghent, Andra, Tchistyi, Alexei
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Sprache:eng
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