Consumer expertise or credit risk?an empirical analysis of mortgage pricing
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Lejona, España
Editorial: ESIC Editorial
ISBN: 978-84-7356-711-4
Any de publicació: 2010
Pàgines: 127
Tipus: Capítol de llibre
Resum
Loan mortgage interest rates are usually the result of a bank-customer negotiation process. We argue that, since mortgage loan is a complex product, consumer expertise could influence the customer bargaining power in the negotiation. Thus far, consumer expertise has not been considered as a relevant factor for mortgage pricing. Using data on mortgage loan prices for a sample of 1092 households for the year 2005 (Bank of Spain Survey of Household Finances, EFF-2005), and including credit risk, costs, potential capacity of the consumer to generate future business and bank competition variables, the regression results indicate that consumer expertise-related metrics are highly significant as predictors of mortgage loan spreads.