behaviour of Italian mortgage lenders using a novel loan-level dataset. When policy rates turn negative, banks with higher …

mortgage-backed securities is more widespread …

to German savings banks during the US mortgage crisis that are unrelated to local conditions. We find that firms with …

towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp …

Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between …-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for … exercise to identify how the easing of monetary policy during the financial crisis affected mortgage holders. It shows that the …

consumption path of credit constrained homeowners is determined by the size and timing of payments (mortgage maturity). We exploit … the rapid expansion of mortgage markets during the last decade in Spain and a very detailed survey on household finances … consumption of households headed by an individual with high school responds more to mortgage maturity than to the interest rate …

real house price, residential investment and mortgage debt on the two sides of the Atlantic. Then, it presents evidence …

In a number of countries a substantial proportion of mortgage loans is denominated in foreign currency. In this paper …

main facts: first, the features of residential mortgage markets differ markedly across industrialized countries; second … house prices is significantly stronger in those countries with larger flexibility/development of mortgage markets; third …, the transmission to consumption is stronger only in those countries where mortgage equity release is common and mortgage …