Abstract
Many borrowers make extra principal payments on their mortgages (curtailers). Some of these curtailers subsequently go through foreclosure and lose any benefits from their curtailments. Such curtailers reveal ex-ante non-strategic preferences towards default. We contrast the default sensitivity to leverage of curtailers vis-a-vis noncurtailers to isolate the strategic component of default. Our results show between 2008 and 2012 that the strategic component of default was less than 27% of overall default. We demonstrate robustness of the findings to measures of borrower liquidity, sample compositions, and legal settings that shift the value of strategic default.
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