Michael LaCour-Little

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Director - Economics

1100 15th St NW

Washington, DC 20005

United States

California State University at Fullerton

Professor of Finance - Emeritus

5133 Mihaylo Hall

Fullerton, CA 92834-6848

United States

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1.

Subprime Lending and the Housing Bubble: Tail Wags Dog?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Sep 2008
KhasadYahu ZarBabal, Michael LaCour-Little and Kerry D. Vandell
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
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subprime, housing bubble

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Risk Based Capital Requirements for Mortgage Loans

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Paul S. Calem and Michael LaCour-Little
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Capital, mortgage, risk, regulation

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Does Regulatory Capital Arbitrage or Asymmetric Information Drive Securitization?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jun 2004
Brent W. Ambrose, Michael LaCour-Little and Anthony B. Sanders
Pennsylvania State University, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and George Mason University - School of Business
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Banks, debt, securitization, regulatory capital

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The Effect of Conforming Loan Status on Mortgage Yield Spreads: A Loan Level Analysis

Dice Center Working Paper No. 2001-1
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Feb 2002
Brent W. Ambrose, Michael LaCour-Little and Anthony B. Sanders
Pennsylvania State University, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and George Mason University - School of Business
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Mortgage yield spreads, securitization, government-sponsored enterprise

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Improving Parametric Mortgage Prepayment Models with Non-Parametric Kernel Regression

Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2002
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 May 2007
Michael LaCour-Little, Michael A. Marschoun and Clark L. Maxam
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), affiliation not provided to SSRN and Trailcrest Capital Advisors
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prepayment, valuation, mortgages, non-parametric

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A Note on Hybrid Mortgages

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Sep 2004
Brent W. Ambrose, Michael LaCour-Little and Zsuzsa R. Huszar
Pennsylvania State University, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and National University of Singapore
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adjustable rate mortgage, prepayment, default

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The Home Mortgage Preferences of Low-and-Moderate Income Households

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Jan 2007
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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housing finance, mortgage choice, low-and-moderate income

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Economic Factors Affecting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reporting

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Economic Factors Affecting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reporting

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2007
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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HMDA, mortgage, subprime

Economic Factors Affecting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reporting

Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2007
Posted: 15 Nov 2007
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

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Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, HMDA, home loan, credit risk, yield curve

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Commercial Mortgage Prepayments Under Heterogeneous Prepayment Penalty Structures

Journal of Real Estate Research Vol. 25, No. 3, 2003
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Jan 2007
Qiang Fu, Michael LaCour-Little and Kerry D. Vandell
Indiana University, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
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commercial mortgage, mortgage-backed security, prepayment penalty

10.

Flood Risk and the U.S. Housing Market

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Jul 2019
Howard Kunreuther, Susan M. Wachter, Carolyn Kousky and Michael LaCour-Little
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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flood risk, housing market, insurance

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Call Protection in Mortgage Contracts

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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mortgage, callable debt, prepayment, prepayment penalty

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The Pricing of Mortgages by Brokers: An Agency Problem?

Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Oct 2009
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Broker, Mortgage, origination

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What Role Did Piggyback Lending Play in the Housing Bubble and Mortgage Collapse?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Oct 2010
Michael LaCour-Little, Charles A. Calhoun and Wei Yu
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Calhoun Consulting and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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mortgage, foreclosure, housing, piggyback lending

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Home Equity Conversion Mortgages: The Secondary Market Investor Experience

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Oct 2017
Jaclene Begley, Hamilton B. Fout, Michael LaCour-Little and Nuno Mota
GW CWAS, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Reverse Mortgage, Seniors, Life-Cycle Consumption Smoothing

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Adverse Selection in the Home Equity Line of Credit Market

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Oct 2017
Michael LaCour-Little and Yanan Zhang
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Mortgage Default and Prepayment, Home Equity Lines of Credit, Securitization

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AVM versus Appraisal-Based Underwriting in Refinance Mortgages: The Trade-off Between Noise and Bias

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Jun 2020
George Krivorotov and Michael LaCour-Little
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Appraisal Bias, AVM, Refinancing, Mortgage Delinquency

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The Home Purchase Mortgage Preferences of Low- and Moderate-Income Households

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 265-290, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Aug 2007
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Earthquakes and Price Discovery in the Housing Market: Evidence from New Zealand

INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE REVIEW, Volume: 19, Issue Number: 4, 2016
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2017
Arsenio Staer and Michael LaCour-Little
California State University, Fullerton, Mihaylo College of Business & Economics, Department of Finance and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Housing Prices, Earthquakes, Auctions, Hedonic Regression

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Assumable Financing Redux: A New Challenge for Appraisal?

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Jul 2019
Michael LaCour-Little, Zhenguo (Len) Lin and Wei Yu
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Florida International University (FIU) - Hollo School of Real Estate and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Alternative Mortgage Products and the Mortgage Crisis

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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Alternative Mortgage Products and the Mortgage Crisis

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 687-732, 2010
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Jan 2011
Michael LaCour-Little and Jing Yang
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and California State University, Fullerton - Department of Finance
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Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: Alternative Mortgage Products and the Mortgage Crisis

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 Aug 2010
Michael LaCour-Little and Jing Yang
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and California State University, Fullerton

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mortgage, housing, residential mortgage finance

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The Role of Home Equity Lending in the Recent Mortgage Crisis

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The Role of Home Equity Lending in the Recent Mortgage Crisis

Real Estate Economics, Vol. 42, Issue 1, pp. 153-189, 2014
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Feb 2014
Michael LaCour-Little, Wei Yu and Libo Sun
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Finance, Real Estate and Law Department
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The Role of Home Equity Lending in the Recent Mortgage Crisis

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Aug 2012
Michael LaCour-Little, Wei Yu and Libo Sun
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Finance, Real Estate and Law Department

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mortgage, default, housing, home equity lending

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Parameter Stability and the Valuation of Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities

Real Estate Economics, March 2012
Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Michael LaCour-Little, Yun W. Park and Richard K. Green
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Korea Securities Research Institute (KSRI) and University of Southern California - Lusk Center for Real Estate

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mortgage, model risk, prepayment

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Taking the Lie Out of Liar Loans: The Effect of Reduced Documentation on the Performance and Pricing of Alt-A and Subprime Mortgages

46th Annual AREUEA Conference Paper
Posted: 01 Dec 2010
Michael LaCour-Little and Jing Yang
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and California State University, Fullerton

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Home Equity Extraction by Homeowners: 2000-2006

Journal of Real Estate Research, 2009
Posted: 01 Feb 2009
Michael LaCour-Little, Eric Rosenblatt and Vincent Yao
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) - Research and Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business

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Cash our refinance, equity extraction

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Appraisal Quality and Residential Mortgage Default: Evidence from Alaska

Posted: 05 Jun 2003
Michael LaCour-Little and Stephen Malpezzi
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and University of Wisconsin at Madison

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appraisal, mortgage, default, house price indices

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Prepayment Risk in Adjustable Rate Mortgages: Some New Evidence

OLIN Working Paper No. 99-03
Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Michael LaCour-Little and Brent W. Ambrose
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Pennsylvania State University

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The Evolving Role of Technology in Mortgage Finance

OLIN Working Paper No. 99-02
Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

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Applied Non-Parametric Regression Techniques: Estimating Prepayments on Fixed Rate Mortgage-Backed Securities

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Applied Non-Parametric Regression Techniques: Estimating Prepayments on Fixed Rate Mortgage-Backed Securities

OLIN-99-04
Posted: 22 Jun 2000
Michael LaCour-Little and Clark L. Maxam
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Trailcrest Capital Advisors

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Applied Non-Parametric Regression Techniques: Estimating Prepayments on Fixed Rate Mortgage-Backed Securities

Posted: 25 Apr 2002
Clark L. Maxam and Michael LaCour-Little
Trailcrest Capital Advisors and Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

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mortgage, prepayment, nonparametric

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Third Party Originators and Mortgage Prepayment Risk: An Agency Problem?

Posted: 16 Apr 1999
Michael LaCour-Little and Gregory H. Chun
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Kimpo College

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Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: A Critical Review of the Literature

Journal of Real Estate Literature
Posted: 25 Nov 1998
Michael LaCour-Little
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

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