relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … transfers, substitute the limited mortgage availability and explains the second highest homeownership rate in our sample … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …

relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … transfers, substitute the limited mortgage availability and explains the second highest homeownership rate in our sample … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …

higher LTV ratio substantially increases an elderly homeowner’s likelihood of exiting homeownership. In particular, elderly … homeowners with an LTV ratio greater than 80% are more than four times likely to exit homeownership than their debt … less likely to depart from homeownership if they recently extracted equity from their homes. In addition, we find both …

are heteroeneous with respect to income and preferences and mortgage lending is restricted by a down-payment requirement …