The Role of Securitization in Mortgage Renegotiation

48 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2011 Last revised: 29 Aug 2022

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Sumit Agarwal

National University of Singapore

Gene Amromin

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Itzhak Ben-David

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Souphala Chomsisengphet

Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

Douglas D. Evanoff

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Date Written: March 2011

Abstract

We study the effects of securitization on renegotiation of distressed residential mortgages over the current financial crisis. Unlike prior studies, we employ unique data that directly observes lender renegotiation actions and covers more than 60% of US mortgage market. Exploiting within-servicer variation in this data, we find that bank-held loans are 26% to 36% more likely to be renegotiated than comparable securitized mortgages (4.2 to 5.7% in absolute terms). Also, modifications of bank-held loans are more efficient: conditional on a modification, bank-held loans have lower post-modification default rate by 9% (3.5% in absolute terms). Our findings support the view that frictions introduced by securitization create a significant challenge to effective renegotiation of residential loans.

Keywords: Financial Crisis, Loss Mitigation, Mortgage Crisis, Securitization, Lenders, Servicers, Liquidation, Modification, Repayment, Refinance, Default, Delinquency, Borrower, Interest Rates, Household Finance, Credit, Housing, FICO Score, Leverage, LTV, Loan Modiccation, Mortgage, GSE, HAMP, Loan Term

JEL Classification: D1, D8, G1, G2

Suggested Citation

Agarwal, Sumit and Amromin, Gene and Ben-David, Itzhak and Chomsisengphet, Souphala and Evanoff, Douglas D., The Role of Securitization in Mortgage Renegotiation (March 2011). Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2011-03-002, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2011-2, FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2011-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1739915 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1739915

Sumit Agarwal

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Gene Amromin

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Douglas D. Evanoff

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago ( email )

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