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Strategic Mortgage Defaults Seen as Rare

October 23, 2015
A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that strategic defaults on mortgages are much less common than previously believed. The researchers with the Federal Reserve and two universities suggest that their findings have significant implications for servicers’ loss-mitigation techniques. The researchers used expansive data from the University of Michigan’s Panel Study of Income Dynamics survey from 2009 through 2011 ...
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