Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these … lenders' exposure to high-growth markets is associated with more risk, more efficiency, and more return on mortgage portfolios …

Households who wish to extract home equity through refinancing their mortgage face a hidden transaction cost. The real … value of the fixed nominal mortgage payment declines over time with inflation. The change in the real value of the mortgage … payments from taking on a new mortgage is positive and an increasing function of inflation; higher inflation thus discourages …