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!reased demand for mortgage loans is caused by substitution from other forms of consumercredit. Contrary to results reported in the …
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associated with the liquidation of collateralized debt. Using the mortgage market as a laboratory, we conjecture that lenders …
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, we document the association between house prices and homeownership at age thirty. We then use synthetic cohort methods to …
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Loss aversion is a core concept in prospect theory that refers to people's asymmetric attitudes with respect to gains and losses. More specifically, losses loom larger than gains. With the capability of loss aversion to explain economic phenomena, some of which are puzzling under expected...
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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 …
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In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale … mortgage distress on house prices. -- foreclosure ; mortgage ; judicial ; power of sale ; right to cure …
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In a recent set of influential papers, researchers have argued that residential mortgage foreclosures reduce the sale … mortgage distress on house prices. -- foreclosure ; mortgage ; judicial ; power of sale ; right to cure …
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We construct a new measure of mortgage credit availability that describes the maximum amount obtainable by a borrower … of given characteristics. We estimate this "loan frontier" using mortgage originations data from 2001 to 2014 and show … that it reflects a binding borrowing constraint. Our estimates reveal that the expansion of mortgage credit during the …
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England has very volatile house prices. We use pseudo-panel data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, to assess the extent to which house prices affect access to home ownership by age thirty, and whether differences in ownership rates persist. We find that ownership...
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I show that individuals whose unemployment risk tends to increase more when local home prices fall optimally invest less in owner-occupied housing. Using a unique, Swedish register-based database, I find that a one standard deviation increase in the covariance between individually estimated...
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