We exploit a unique data set that features both un-intermediated mortgage requests and independent offers from multiple … current mortgage payments over the risk of possible hikes in future mortgage payments. We also provide evidence that banks do … influence the contracted mortgage rate fixation periods, trading off their own exposure to interest rate risk against the …

In this paper we examine the sensitivity of mortgage arrears for Irish households to changes in mortgage interest rates … information on current income and current mortgage repayments to link arrears to the level of, as well as shocks in, households … and those on tracker mortgage rate loans are most at risk following rate rises. This has important consequences for the …

Long-term fixed-rate mortgage contracts protect households against interest rate risk, yet most countries have … fixation length tracks the life-cycle decline of credit risk in the mortgage market: the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio decreases … using shorter-term contracts. To quantify demand for long-term contracts, I develop a life-cycle model of optimal mortgage …

We study the determinants of the subprime mortgage loan spread, with a particular focus on funding liquidity and …

improving the home mortgage contract to make homeownership more achievable for creditworthy borrowers. Though the proposals in …, deviations from par make mortgage prepayment options valuable, so that lenders offering the product must manage option risk as … mortgage designs, understanding their financial characteristics may contribute to the search for a better mortgage …

We study credit ratings on subprime and Alt-A mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) deals issued between 2001 and 2007, the … period leading up to the subprime crisis. The fraction of highly rated securities in each deal is decreasing in mortgage … underperformance (high mortgage defaults and losses and large rating downgrades) among deals with observably higher risk mortgages …

We study the exposure of mortgage borrowers in Switzerland to interest rate, income and house price risks and examine … analysis is based on a unique data set of household mortgage applications from September 2012 until January 2014. Our … assessment of risk exposure among mortgage borrowers in Switzerland is highly sensitive to the underlying assumptions on mortgage …

subprime mortgage expansion. We combine loan-level data on the performance of non-prime securitized mortgages with individual … disparate treatment from race and ethnicity on rate-setting behavior across the most popular subprime mortgage products. In …

We examine mortgage pricing before and after Switzerland was the first country to activate the Counter-Cyclical Capital … Buffer of Basel III. Observing multiple mortgage offers per request, we obtain three core findings. First, capitalconstrained … and mortgage-specialized banks raise their rates relatively more. Second, risk-weighting schemes supposed to discriminate …