Kartashova, Katya; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2020 - Last updated: May 19, 2020
interest rates of short-term fixed-rate mortgages (the dominant product in Canada's mortgage market) have to be reset according …We study the causal effect of mortgage rate changes on consumer spending, debt repayment, and defaults during an … variation in the timing of mortgage rate resets. We find asymmetric responses of consumer durable spending, deleveraging, and …