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Improving Mortgage Default Collection Efforts by Employing the Decoy Effect

verfasst von: David M. Harrison, Kimberly F. Luchtenberg, Michael J. Seiler

Erschienen in: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics | Ausgabe 4/2023

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We test the ability of the Decoy Effect to enhance debt collection efforts and find that by disclosing the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) in settlement offers, participants are less influenced by the decoy and more apt to select the repayment option that is in their best interest. At the same time, by reporting the APR, borrowers are more willing to make repayments on the modified loan, resulting in a net gain to debt collection efforts. Because disclosing the APR is Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) compliant, this simple disclosure has the ability to increase debt collection returns while helping borrowers make better decisions when selecting debt modification repayment plans. Our results suggest an applicability to all types of defaulted debt including mortgages, sub-prime auto loans, credit cards, student loans, and payday loans.

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Spacing the APRs associated with the three options by a lesser (greater) percentage will reasonably be expected to allow the decoy effect to be more (less) effective. We selected this amount because a 9% increase in yield is certainly enough of a boost in debt collector returns to warrant serious policy adoption consideration.

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Although our instructions indicate that the respondents should not be concerned about the size of the payment, some respondents may include their actual income constraints in their payment decision. As a robustness check, when restricted to higher income respondents (incomes over $60,000), our results remain unchanged (available upon request).

We also investigated whether the results are sensitive to participant and state-specific attributes. Individual characteristics tested include the level of financial literacy, previous default, and net worth. State-specific attributes investigated center around foreclosure rules including whether the states require judicial foreclosure, is a recourse state, whether the state allows statutory redemption, and average foreclosure time. Our results are robust to all these additional checks.

While beyond the scope of the current investigation, these latter results with respect to our control variables may well be due, at least in part, to issues of perceived affordability of the mortgage repayment options. While all experimental respondents were told to assume they could afford all proffered alternatives, the effective cost or implied magnitude of the designated terms may well be perceived differently across wealth, age, and/or geographic groupings.

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Titel: Improving Mortgage Default Collection Efforts by Employing the Decoy Effect
verfasst von: David M. Harrison
Kimberly F. Luchtenberg
Michael J. Seiler
Publikationsdatum: 16.11.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics / Ausgabe 4/2023
Print ISSN: 0895-5638
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-045X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11146-021-09876-8

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