Complex mortgages became a popular borrowing instrument during the bullish housing market of the early 2000s but vanished rapidly during the subsequent downturn. These non-traditional loans (interest only, negative amortization, and teaser mortgages) enable households to postpone loan repayment...

This study identifies five distinctive stages of the current global financial crisis: the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market; spillovers into broader credit market; the liquidity crisis epitomized by the fallout of Northern Rock, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers with counterparty risk...

This paper provides an overview of the antecedents, main drivers and spillover mechanisms of the turbulence emanating from the US sub-prime credit market in the summer of 2007. Its primary goal is to discuss the facts and interrelationships featured in the various analyses and statistics in a...

El presente estudio tiene como finalidad documentar la evolución del mercado de crédito hipotecario en Perú durante los últimos dos decenios y, sobre esta base, analizar y comprender los factores económicos-financieros e institucionales que han limitado o promovido su crecimiento durante...

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...

Die Verbriefung, also die Finanzierung von Krediten über den Kapitalmarkt, hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Subprime-Krise zeigt jedoch deren Mängel auf. Da die Immobilienfinanzierer das Risiko aus der Kreditvergabe an den Kapitalmarkt weitergeben konnten, wurden...

We document the emergence of a disconnect between mortgage and Treasury interest rates in the summer of 2003. Following the end of the Federal Reserve expansionary cycle in June 2003, mortgage rates failed to rise according to their historical relationship with Treasury yields, leading to...

Die Geldpolitik schenkt den Immobilienmärkten zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit, weil immer deutlicher wird, dass die Immobilienpreise sich maßgeblich auf den Konsum auswirken können. Ein wichtiges Bindeglied zwischen der Geldpolitik und den Immobilienpreisen stellen die Hypothekenmärkte dar. Die...

The ongoing financial crisis so far cost the German financial sector 38 billion Euros due to losses on its mortgage-related subprime bank exposures. This paper looks for the impact of these losses on the real sector of the economy. First, the financial sector is looked at as part of the overall...