The most frequent mortgage loans in the US behave according to nominal interest rates with level loan payments (NRMs), like Fixed Rate Mortgages (FRMs) or Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs). We use a model to show that the tilt effect, an increase of real payments in the early years of the...

This paper assesses the relative importance of two key drivers of mortgage default: negative equity and illiquidity. To do so, the authors combine loan-level mortgage data with detailed credit bureau information about the borrower's broader balance sheet. This gives them a direct way to measure...

This paper presents evidence that reductions in mortgage interest rates associated with prepayment penalties are greater for riskier borrowers, as measured by mortgage type, credit scores, and local incomes and education levels. This is consistent with an efficiency view arguing that, by...

This paper argues that during the housing bubble, housing finance markets failed to price risk correctly because of information failure caused by the complexity and heterogeneity of private-label mortgage-backed securities and structured finance products. Addressing the informational problems...

There are more than 5 times as many 30-year mortgages than 15-year mortgages in circulation even though the 15-year mortgage interest rate is consistently lower than the 30-year mortgage interest rate. The relative popularity of longer term 30-year mortgages can be attributed both to the tax...

After emerging from the U.S. real estate and financial markets, financial crisis has gradually become global. Due to both primary and secondary mortgage market problems in the U.S. are accepted as the essential reasons of the current crisis, it is believed that financial markets and real estate...

This paper presents evidence that non-bank-originated sub-prime mortgages have a higher probability of default than bank-originated sub-prime mortgages, but only for loans with prepayment penalties. Evidence also indicates that non-banks price prepayment penalties less favorably to borrowers...

This paper presents evidence that non-bank-originated subprime mortgages have a higher probability of default than bank-originated subprime mortgages, but only for loans with prepayment penalties. Evidence also indicates that non-banks price prepayment penalties less favorably to borrowers than...

Within three quarters of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 698.59bn) exceeded by 50% that extended in the respective period of 2011. With growth in lending volumes, a decrease in the overdue debt on MHL in rubles both in monetary terms and as a percentage of the outstanding...

In 12 months of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) exceeded by 47.3% that in the same period of 2011 and amounted to Rb 904.6bn, despite the continued growth in the weighted average rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month. In November 2012, the weighted average rate amounted...