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  Michael LaCour-Little 
LaCour-Little, Michael
California State University at Fullerton
Professor
Finance Department
5113 Mihaylo Hall
92834-6848 Fullerton, CA
UNITED STATES
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California State University at Fullerton
Professor of Finance
5133 Mihaylo Hall
Cal State Fullerton
92834-6848 Fullerton
UNITED STATES

Michael LaCour-Little is Professor of Finance at California State University-Fullerton and Co-Director of its Real Estate and Land Use Institute. His main research interest is real estate finance. Dr. LaCour-Little was previously Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Finance at Washington University in St. Louis and an executive in the mortgage industry prior to joining the faculty of Cal State Fullerton in 2006. From 2003-2008, he also served as Executive Vice President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and he continues to serve on several editorial boards. He has published more than twenty five articles on housing finance and mortgage markets in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, The Journal of Housing Economics, The Journal of Real Estate Research, The Journal Fixed Income, Housing Policy Debate, and elsewhere. A native of California, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and undergraduate and master’s degrees at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA .

Fields of interest  

Banking economic
Financial institutions
Financial intermediaries
Markets regulation
Risk management

External links  

SSRN Author Page
http://ssrn.com/author=120508
 Working papers and articles: (28)

 Home Equity Extraction by Homeowners: 2000-2006   
Michael LaCour-Little & Eric Rosenblatt & Vincent Yao (2010)

 The Pricing of Mortgages by Brokers: An Agency Problem?   
Michael LaCour-Little (2009)

 Subprime lending and the housing bubble: Tail wags dog?   
Coleman IV, Major & LaCour-Little, Michael & Vandell, Kerry D. (2008)

 The Home Purchase Mortgage Preferences of Low- and Moderate-Income Households   
Michael LaCour-Little (2007)

 Multifamily Mortgage Lending: A Comparison of the U.S. and Canada   
Cynthia Holmes & Michael LaCour-Little (2007)

 Guest Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue   
Michael LaCour-Little (2007)

 Economic Factors Affecting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reporting   
Michael LaCour-Little (2007)

 Does Regulatory Capital Arbitrage, Reputation, or Asymmetric Information Drive Securitization?   
Brent Ambrose & Michael LaCour-Little & Anthony Sanders (2005)

 A Note on Hybrid Mortgages   
Brent W. Ambrose & Michael LaCour-Little & Zsuzsa R. Huszar (2005)

 Risk-based capital requirements for mortgage loans   
Calem, Paul S. & LaCour-Little, Michael (2004)

 The Effect of Conforming Loan Status on Mortgage Yield Spreads: A Loan Level Analysis   
Brent W. Ambrose & Michael LaCour-Little & Anthony B. Sanders (2004)

 Equity Dilution: An Alternative Perspective on Mortgage Default   
Michael LaCour-Little (2004)

 Commercial Mortgage Prepayments Under Heterogeneous Prepayment Penalty Structures   
Qiang Fu & Michael LaCour-Little & Kerry D. Vandell (2003)

 Appraisal Quality and Residential Mortgage Default: Evidence from Alaska   
LaCour-Little, Michael & Malpezzi, Stephen (2003)

 Improving Parametric Mortgage Prepayment Models with Non-parametric Kernel Regression   
Michael LaCour-Little & Michael Marschoun & Clark L. Maxam (2002)

 Gated Communities and Property Values   
Michael LaCour-Little & Stephen Malpezzi (2001)

 Comment: Credit Market Access and the Effects of CRA   
LaCour-Little, Michael (2001)

 A Note on Identification of Discrimination in Mortgage Lending   
Michael LaCour-Little (2001)

 Prepayment Risk in Adjustable Rate Mortgages Subject to Initial Year Discounts: Some New Evidence   
Brent W. Ambrose & Michael LaCour-Little (2001)

 Applied Nonparametric Regression Techniques: Estimating Prepayments on Fixed-Rate Mortgage-Backed Securities   
Maxam, Clark L & LaCour-Little, Michael (2001)

 Movers and Shuckers: Interdependent Prepayment Decisions   
John M. Clapp & Gerson M. Goldberg & John P. Harding & Michael LaCour-Little (2001)

 Some Truths about Ostriches: Who Doesn't Prepay Their Mortgages and Why They Don't   
Green, Richard K. & LaCour-Little, Michael (1999)

 Third Party Originators and Mortgage Prepayment Risk: An Agency Problem?   
Michael LaCour-Little & Gregory H. Chun (1999)

 The Truth About Ostriches: Who Never Prepays their Mortgage and Why They Don--   
Richard K. Green & Michael LaCour-Little (1998)

 Are Minorities or Minority Neighborhoods More Likely to Get Low Appraisals?   
LaCour-Little, Michael & Green, Richard K (1998)

 Retiring Early: an Empirical Analysis of the Mortgage Curtailment Decision   
Qiang Fu & Michael Lacour-Little & Kerry D. Vandell (1997)

 Application of Reverse Regression to Boston Federal Reserve Data Refutes Claims of Discrimination   
Michael LaCour-Little (1996)

 Is There Bias in Residential Appraisal?   
Richard Green & Michael LaCour-Little (1995)





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