financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty and financial returns from stock markets. Our panel data evidence …

specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues … ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

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 …

countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …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 …