) quantitative easing (QE) announcements on the mortgage market during the zero lower bound (ZLB) period. A total of 35 QE …-year mortgage rate, the 30-year Treasury rate and the spread between them. Announcements suggesting the start of a new … round of QE reduced the mortgage rate tremendously, while the effects of further news diminished. Announcements of an …

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption …

This paper examines how the stock market affects discrimination in mortgage lending. Comparing banks that went public … through initial public offering or acquisition with similar banks that failed to go public, we find that mortgage denial rates …