Ambrose, Brent W.; LaCour-Little, Michael; Huszar, Zsuzsa R. - In: Real Estate Economics 33 (2005) 4, pp. 765-782
We extend previous research on traditional one-year adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) by analyzing the performance of 3/27 hybrid instruments. Under this contract innovation, which first appeared in the mid-1990s, note rates are fixed for three years after which they convert to a traditional...