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How do banks and households manage interest rate risk? : evidence from the Swiss mortgage market
Basten, Christoph; Guin, Benjamin; Koch, Cathérine - 2017
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 …
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A structural econometric model of price discrimination in the mortgage lending industry
Gary-Bobo, Robert; Larribeau, Sophie - 2002
likelihood methods. The data used for estimation is a sample of clients of a French network of mortgage lenders. We show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410245
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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India
Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with...
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Betting the house
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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The saving glut of the rich and the rise in household debt
Mian, Atif; Straub, Ludwig; Sufi, Amir - 2020
Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the rich. The saving glut of the rich has been as large as the global saving glut, and it has not been associated...
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Default costs and repayment of underwater mortgages
Brueckner, Jan K.; Conklin, James N.; Coulson, N. Edward; … - 2023
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 …
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Taxing homeowners who won’t borrow
Wong, Francis - 2024
Using high-frequency administrative data covering millions of US homeowners, I document three novel facts about homeowner responses to property tax increases driven by rising home values. First, non-migrating homeowners cut consumption, exhibit financial distress, and do not borrow against their...
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Indebted demand
Mian, Atif; Straub, Ludwig; Sufi, Amir - 2020
We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation that borrowers and savers differ in their marginal...
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Mental models of the stock market
Andre, Peter; Schirmer, Philipp; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2023
Investors' return expectations are pivotal in stock markets, but the reasoning behind these expectations remains a black box for economists. This paper sheds light on economic agents' mental models - their subjective understanding - of the stock market, drawing on surveys with the US general...
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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing
Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009
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 …
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