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Optimal Risk-Sharing in Mortgage Contracts : The Effects of Potential Prepayment and Default
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2014
Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers … of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research …'s (1986a) model, using it to characterize optimal contracts in the absence of mortgage termination, and then exploring how …
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Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures : Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?
Li, Wenli - 2014
We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage “strip-down” as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip …-term reduction in mortgage interest rates and a small, short-term increase in mortgage approval rates, but no long-term effects, and … the circuit court decisions did not consistently affect mortgage terms. These results suggest that strip-down would be an …
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Double-Question Survey Measures for the Analysis of Financial Bubbles and Crashes
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2017
This paper proposes a new double-question survey method that elicits information about how individuals subjective belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets of questions, one that asks about his/her belief regarding...
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Finance, Labour, Capital, and International Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2016
Labour incomes depend on structural as well as politico-economic factors, because labour market policies partially remedy the financial market imperfections that make labour income shocks difficult to insure, and have different implications for labour and capital income. This paper illustrates...
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Reputational Herding in Financial Markets : A Laboratory Experiment
Roider, Andreas - 2015
We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008), career concerns are introduced in a sequential asset market, where wages for investors are set by subjects in the role of employers. Employers can observe investment...
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Imperfect Financial Markets as a Commitment Device for the Government
Simon, Jenny - 2014
When the government lacks the ability to commit to a tax policy over time, agents' involvement in imperfect financial markets can be welfare improving. Agents borrow against their promised income in markets that are incomplete in the sense that claims cannot be resold without loss. Taking these...
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Heterogeneous Consumers, Segmented Asset Markets, and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy
Enders, Zeno - 2018
This paper proposes a novel mechanism by which changes in the distribution of money holdings have real effects. Specifically, I develop a flexible-price model of segmented asset markets that generates real aggregate effects of monetary policy through the dependence of optimal markups on the...
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Regional Implications of Financial Market Development : Credit Rationing, Trade, and Location
von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2013
We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...
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An Extended Macro-Finance Model with Financial Factors
Dewachter, Hans - 2013
This paper extends the benchmark Macro-Finance model by introducing, next to the standard macroeconomic factors, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor...
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Asymmetric Capital-Tax Competition, Unemployment and Losses from Capital Market Integration
Pethig, Rudiger - 2010
In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in capital endowments, production technologies and rigid wages. Governments tax capital at the source to maximize national welfare. They account for tax base responses to their...
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