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On December 16th of 2015, the Fed initiated "liftoff," raising the federal funds rate range by 25 basis points and ending a 7-year regime of near-zero rates. We use a unique dataset of 640,000 loan-hour observations to measure the impact of liftoff on interest rates in the peer-to-peer lending...
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the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … youngest group of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
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the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … youngest group of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
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the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059581
the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … youngest group of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988756
We study the causal effect of mortgage rate changes on consumer spending, debt repayment, and defaults during an … interest rates of short-term fixed-rate mortgages (the dominant product in Canada's mortgage market) have to be reset according … variation in the timing of mortgage rate resets. We find asymmetric responses of consumer durable spending, deleveraging, and …
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In this paper we examine the sensitivity of mortgage arrears for Irish households to changes in mortgage interest rates … information on current income and current mortgage repayments to link arrears to the level of, as well as shocks in, households … and those on tracker mortgage rate loans are most at risk following rate rises. This has important consequences for the …
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a mortgage on borrower balance sheet outcomes. We find that on average, refinancing into a lower-rate mortgage reduced … the savings on mortgage payments. This number combines increases (new debts) of about 60 percent of the mortgage savings …
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bank sends a letter before the annual reset containing advance information on the expected change in mortgage payments. We …
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Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
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