In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale … mortgage distress on house prices. …

The last decade has brought about substantial mortgage innovation and increased refinancing. The objective of this … paper is to understand the determinants and implications of mortgage choice in the context of a general equilibrium model … with incomplete markets. The equilibrium characterization allows us to study the impact of mortgage financing decisions in …

socioeconomic conditions, and mortgage markets. The paper also estimates a simultaneous econometric model for the country`s housing … highly elastic to households` disposable income, new housing prices and real interest rates on mortgage credit. On the supply …

We present 12 facts about the mortgage crisis. We argue that the facts refute the popular story that the crisis … resulted from finance industry insiders deceiving uninformed mortgage borrowers and investors. Instead, we argue that borrowers … prices. We then show that neither institutional features of the mortgage market nor financial innovations are any more likely …

done to stop it. We use an economic model to focus on two key decisions: the borrower's choice to default on a mortgage and … illustrate that unaffordable loans, defined as those with high mortgage payments relative to income at origination, are unlikely …