Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
The Economist, June 26th, 2009

Professors Zingales, Sapienza, and Guiso’s new research examines American homeowners’ propensity to default when the value of a mortgage exceeds the value of their house, even if they can afford to pay their mortgage.

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For additional information, please see Professors Zingales, Sapienza and Guiso’s paper, Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Defaults on Mortgages.