This paper looks at the relation between mortgage credit and housing values. It has become conventional wisdom in … tested as of yet. The paper uses the Johansen procedure to estimate a long run relationship between mortgage credit and … different housing price variables are estimated. It is found that mortgage credit is weakly exogenous. Impulse …

I develop a quantitative model of the mortgage market operating in an economy with financial frictions and nominal …

significantly (especially on durable goods) but outright home-owners do not. While the dollar change in mortgage payments is nearly …

the aggregate response of consumption to interest rates is driven by households with a mortgage. Outright home owners do …