We study the exposure of mortgage borrowers in Switzerland to interest rate, income and house price risks and examine … analysis is based on a unique data set of household mortgage applications from September 2012 until January 2014. Our … assessment of risk exposure among mortgage borrowers in Switzerland is highly sensitive to the underlying assumptions on mortgage …

This paper studies a household's optimal demand for a reverse mortgage. These contracts allow homeowners to tap their … home equity to finance consumption needs. In stylized frameworks, we show that the decision to enter a reverse mortgage is … reduces the risky portfolio share and is more likely to enter a reverse mortgage. On the other hand, if there is a large drop …

This paper examines what happens to mortgages in the subprime mortgage market once foreclosure proceeding are initiated …

A leading explanation for the lack of widespread mortgage renegotiation during the financial crisis is the existence of … frictions in the mortgage securitization process. This paper finds little evidence that the securitization process impeded the … representative dataset on seriously delinquent mortgage borrowers from the first quarter of 2005 through the third quarter of 2008 …

A mortgage borrower has several options once a foreclosure proceedings is initiated, mainly default and prepayment …. Using a sample of FHA mortgage loans, we develop a dependent competing risks framework to examine the determinants of time … behavior of the individual mortgage borrowers. We find that time to default and time to prepayment are affected by several …

This paper examines what happens to mortgages in the subprime mortgage market once foreclosure proceeding are initiated …

Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers … of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research …'s (1986a) model, using it to characterize optimal contracts in the absence of mortgage termination, and then exploring how …