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Author:Boehm, Thomas P. 

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A discrete choice model of dividend reinvestment plans: classification and prediction

We study 852 companies with dividend reinvestment plans in 1999 matched by total assets to 852 companies without such plans. We use discrete choice methods to predict the classification of these companies. We interpret the misclassified companies as being likely to switch their plan status. That is, if a firm's financial data suggest that a company should have had a dividend reinvestment plan in 1999 but did not, then we expect that it would be more likely to institute a plan than the other companies in the sample. Conversely, if it did have a plan but the financial data suggest that it ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2007-22

Conference Paper
Overages in mortgage pricing

Proceedings , Paper 651

Working Paper
Is there discrimination in mortgage pricing? the case of overages

We conduct an empirical investigation to explain observed differentials in mortgage overage pricing. Our analysis makes several contributions. First, we study an area of mortgage pricing that is little understood by consumers and has received little scrutiny in the literature. Second, we consider the impact of the market power of individual loan officers on overages paid by borrowers, particularly minorities. Third, we include a number of borrower and lender characteristics not available in previous analysis. ; Importantly, we introduce a new direct measure of the market power of individual ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2001-4

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