This paper uncovers if and how insurance companies react to shocks to collateral in their portfolio of securitized … 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 …

sharing ; home bias ; securitization ; mortgage markets ; asset prices ; international business cycles …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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …