main facts: first, the features of residential mortgage markets differ markedly across industrialized countries; second … house prices is significantly stronger in those countries with larger flexibility/development of mortgage markets; third …, the transmission to consumption is stronger only in those countries where mortgage equity release is common and mortgage …

real house price, residential investment and mortgage debt on the two sides of the Atlantic. Then, it presents evidence …

) 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 …

mortgage contract designs that more directly pass through interest rate declines to borrowers can reduce racial mortgage …