to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). Using detailed micro data, we show that cash flow shocks … during the COVID-19 pandemic predict CRE mortgage delinquency, especially those stemming from lease expiration of offices …

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption …

We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U …

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 …

We exploit a unique data set that features both un-intermediated mortgage requests and independent offers from multiple … current mortgage payments over the risk of possible hikes in future mortgage payments. We also provide evidence that banks do … influence the contracted mortgage rate fixation periods, trading off their own exposure to interest rate risk against the …

recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large … early warning signal of the recent crisis. -- Stochastic optimal control ; dynamic optimization ; mortgage crisis ; Ito …

This paper explores an overlooked phenomenon in mortgage markets: repayment of underwater mortgages. Since repayment in …, which includes credit impairment and possible guilt, repayment of an underwater mortgage is a wealth-maximizing strategy …

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 …