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Posted rates as signals in mortgage lending markets

Avery, Robert B.; Beeson, Patricia E.; Sniderman, Mark S. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1994

A discussion of how mortgage lenders might use posted lending terms to signal both their eagerness to take new loan applications and their lending standards.

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Crises in the thrift industry and the cost of mortgage credit

Gabriel, Stuart A. - In: FRBSF Economic Letter (1994)

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Implied mortgage refinancing thresholds

Bennett, Paul; Peach, Richard; Peristiani, Stavros - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

The optimal prepayment model asserts that rational homeowners would refinance if they can reduce the current value of their liabilities by an amount greater than the refinancing threshold, defined as the cost of carrying the transaction plus the time value of the embedded call option. To compute...

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The effects of recent mortgage refinancing

Brady, Peter J.; Canner, Glenn B.; Maki, Dean M. - In: Federal Reserve Bulletin (2000) Jul, pp. 441-450

accumulated equity in their homes into spendable funds, have prompted many homeowners to refinance their mortgages. In the spring …

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Mortgage refinancing and the concentration of mortgage coupons

Bennett, Paul; Keane, Frank; Mosser, Patricia C. - In: Current Issues in Economics and Finance 5 (1999) Mar

Because of the concentrated distribution of interest rates on outstanding mortgages, modest interest rate declines in …

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GSEs, mortgage rates, and the long-run effects of mortgage securitization

Passmore, Wayne; Sparks, Roger; Ingpen, Jamie - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2001

illustrating that market structure, government sponsorship, and the characteristics of the mortgages securitized are all important … enhancements needed in the private sector. Using our simulation model, we demonstrate that when mortgages eligible for purchase by … the GSEs have characteristics similar to other mortgages, then implicit government backing generates differences in …

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Growth of subprime mortgage market raises questions

In: Financial Update (2005) Q 3

Because the subprime mortgage market is relatively new, the fallout of interest rate adjustments is unclear. Subprime mortgage borrowers may be at risk if interest rates rise.

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Has the deregulation of deposit interest rates raised mortgage rates?

Gilbert, R. Alton; Holland, A. Steven - In: Review (1984) May, pp. 5-15

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The macro-financial implications of house price-indexed mortgage contracts

Hull, Isaiah - In: Economics Letters 127 (2015) C, pp. 81-85

I explore an alternative mortgage contract that limits negative equity by tying outstanding debt to an index of house prices. This is done in an incomplete markets model, that is calibrated to match US micro- and macro-data. I find that switching from a non-recourse contract to an indexed...

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A critique of the CBO's sponsorship benefit analysis

Toevs, Alden L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001

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