This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes … loans, which constitute the vast majority of U.S. mortgage borrowers. Relying on variation in the timing of resets of … adjustable rate mortgages, we find that a sizable decline in mortgage payments ($150 per month on average) induces a significant …

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes … loans, which constitute the vast majority of U.S. mortgage borrowers. Using a difference-in-differences framework that … sizable decline in mortgage payments ($150 per month on average) induces a significant drop in mortgage defaults, an increase …

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes … loans, which constitute the vast majority of U.S. mortgage borrowers. Relying on variation in the timing of resets of … adjustable rate mortgages, we find that a sizable decline in mortgage payments ($150 per month on average) induces a significant …

This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German …-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we … to 2020 for the whole German banking sector. Our results show that loss rates in the residential mortgage portfolios of …

Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these … lenders' exposure to high-growth markets is associated with more risk, more efficiency, and more return on mortgage portfolios …