Explains the financial history leading to the mortgage meltdown and assesses today's housing finance systems in the …

Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution (EIS). In the UK, the mortgage interest rate features discrete jumps – notches – at …

Intertemporal Substitution (EIS). In the United Kingdom, the mortgage interest rate schedule features discrete jumps — notches — at … and sharp bunching below every notch, which translates into sizable interest elasticities of mortgage debt, between 0 …

significantly (especially on durable goods) but outright home-owners do not. While the dollar change in mortgage payments is nearly …

the aggregate response of consumption to interest rates is driven by households with a mortgage. Outright home owners do …