Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60884 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 432
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Subprime mortgage lending expanded in New York City between 2004 and mid-2007, and delinquencies on these subprime loans have been rising sharply. We use a rich, loan-level data set of the city's outstanding subprime loans as of January 2009 to describe the main features of this lending and to model the performance of these loans. These subprime loans represent a smaller share of total housing units in the city than is true nationwide. In addition, they are found to be clustered in neighborhoods where average borrower credit quality is low and, unlike prime mortgage loans, where African-Americans and Hispanics constitute relatively large shares of the population. We estimate a model of the likelihood that these loans will become seriously delinquent and find a significant role for credit quality of borrowers, debt-to-income and loan-to-value ratios at the time of loan origination, and estimates of the loss of home equity.
Subjects: 
New York City
subprime lending
JEL: 
R10
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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