in a large government mortgage program. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insures most mortgages to lower …-downpayment, lower credit score borrowers, including a majority of first-time homebuyers. The FHA charges borrowers an annual mortgage …

We present a dynamic structural model of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers making payment decisions … the model using unique data sets that contain information on borrowers' mortgage payment history, their broad balance … the delinquency rates. We find that automatic modification mortgage designs under which the monthly payment or the …

Since the housing bust and financial crisis, mortgage lenders have introduced progressively higher minimum thresholds … mortgage credit reduced delinquency on both mortgage and non-mortgage debt and increased their propensity to take out auto …

€“expectations about the path of future house prices – affects the size and timing of provisions for first-lien residential mortgage …

homeownership. In this paper we use property-level data to estimate the effect of government mortgage guarantees on homeownership … reduce the government's involvement in the mortgage market by reducing the CLLs …

We provide new evidence that credit supply shifts contributed to the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust. We collect … original data on both government and private mortgage insurance premiums from 1999-2016, and document that prior to 2008 …

We document that banks reduce supply of jumbo mortgage loans when policy uncertainty increases as measured by the …

market for mortgage refinancing. Mortgage borrowers frequently make costly refinancing mistakes by either refinancing when … expected net present value of mortgage payments on average by $13, because borrowers who should refinance are targeted by …

The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation … accumulation, many lenders require large down payments. Second, in each monthly mortgage payment, homeowners substantially …, refinancing mortgages is often very costly. We propose a new fixed-rate mortgage, called the Fixed-Payment-COFI mortgage (or …

We construct a new measure of mortgage credit availability that describes the maximum amount obtainable by a borrower … of given characteristics. We estimate this "loan frontier" using mortgage originations data from 2001 to 2014 and show … that it reflects a binding borrowing constraint. Our estimates reveal that the expansion of mortgage credit during the …