What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
His primary areas of investigation include Actuarial science, Prepayment of loan, Voting, Financial economics and Ideology.
His research in Actuarial science intersects with topics in Value and Floating interest rate.
His Prepayment of loan study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Option theory, Valuation, House price and Fixed interest rate loan.
His study looks at the relationship between Voting and topics such as Legislation, which overlap with Minimum wage and Self-interest.
Within one scientific family, James B. Kau focuses on topics pertaining to Mortgage insurance under Financial economics, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Default.
His study explores the link between Ideology and topics such as Positive economics that cross with problems in Public administration, Variables, Logrolling, Redistribution of income and wealth and Logit.
His most cited work include:
- Self-Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting (354 citations)
- A Generalized Valuation Model for Fixed-Rate Residential Mortgages (293 citations)
- Default Probabilities for Mortgages (195 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His scientific interests lie mostly in Actuarial science, Econometrics, Prepayment of loan, Voting and Default.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Value, Valuation and Rational pricing.
His research investigates the connection with Econometrics and areas like Probability of default which intersect with concerns in Non-performing loan.
He has included themes like Valuation of options, Financial services, Mortgage underwriting and Interest rate, Fixed interest rate loan in his Prepayment of loan study.
His Voting study incorporates themes from Public interest, Positive economics, Public economics and Ideology.
James B. Kau focuses mostly in the field of Mortgage insurance, narrowing it down to topics relating to Financial economics and, in certain cases, Commercial mortgage-backed security.
He most often published in these fields:
- Actuarial science (24.79%)
- Econometrics (23.97%)
- Prepayment of loan (22.31%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2021)?
- Default (13.22%)
- Prepayment of loan (22.31%)
- Financial services (8.26%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary scientific interests are in Default, Prepayment of loan, Financial services, Loan and Monetary economics.
The various areas that James B. Kau examines in his Default study include Mortgage insurance, Shared appreciation mortgage, Mortgage underwriting, Credit risk and Financial system.
His Prepayment of loan research incorporates themes from Racial disparity and Actuarial science.
His work on Default risk as part of general Actuarial science research is frequently linked to Random effects model, bridging the gap between disciplines.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Option price, Value, Econometrics and Zoning in addition to Financial services.
His Econometrics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Probability of default, Leverage and Fixed interest rate loan.
Between 2009 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Development Value: A Real Options Approach Using Empirical Data (25 citations)
- Racial Discrimination and Mortgage Lending (20 citations)
- Subprime mortgage default (15 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
James B. Kau mainly focuses on Default, Financial services, Secondary mortgage market, Loan and Mortgage underwriting.
His research investigates the connection between Default and topics such as Credit risk that intersect with issues in Logistic regression, Prepayment of loan and Capital asset pricing model.
James B. Kau has researched Financial services in several fields, including Option price, Actuarial science, Zoning and Asian option.
His Actuarial science research includes themes of Value, Metropolitan statistical area and Econometrics.
His research on Mortgage underwriting concerns the broader Mortgage insurance.
The concepts of his Shared appreciation mortgage study are interwoven with issues in Information asymmetry, Financial economics and Debt.
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