This paper reviews recent research on mortgage default, focusing on the relationship of this research to the recent … explicitly addressing reverse causality between rising foreclosures and falling house prices. Mortgage defaults were also a key … researchers to explore the central unsolved question in this area: why mortgage default is so rare, even for households with high …

, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan …

At their peak in 2005, roughly 60 percent of all purchase mortgage loans originated in the United States contained at … house prices and non-traditional features of mortgage contracts. We apply a break-point methodology and find that in housing … findings support the view that a change in mortgage contract availability and a shift toward subprime borrowers helped to fuel …

conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing …

. We find that the idiosyncratic mortgage risk shock plays an importantrole in explaining the fluctuations of house prices …

peg and some mortgage takers found themselves under water. Still the majority of the mortgage takers made a good deal and …

potentially unsustainable mortgage payments. Many of these households must rearrange their mortgage obligations as they enter … their retirement years. Even though most homeowners nearing retirement age have a zero or reasonable mortgage obligation an … prices and prolong and exacerbate the current mortgage crisis …