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Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such searches locate documents which assist to write a successful loan …
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determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress … compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic … evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of …
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Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … reference households, and crucially so in countries with less expanded mortgage markets. Thus it appears that households …
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We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The empirical design eliminates the potential of endogenous selection into labour turnover. The...
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The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
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where homeowners commit a fixed budget to mortgage payments. Our model predicts that: (i) mortgage commitments, by … and entrepreneurship is increasing in mortgage debt; and (iii) the negative relation is more pronounced for entrepreneurs …
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In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage …-Blinder decomposition to measure the extent to which this disparate treatment of lenders in mortgage pricing against immigrants is due to …
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having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the mortgage depth in the country of ancestry, the higher the present value … of the monthly mortgage payments. Our results suggest that social norms regarding mortgage finance in the country of … ancestry matter in determining immigrants' mortgage finance in the host country. More specifically, the effect of social norms …
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This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...
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We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
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