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Betting the House
Jordà, Òscar - 2015
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031150
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Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy
Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes … loans, which constitute the vast majority of U.S. mortgage borrowers. Using a difference-in-differences framework that … sizable decline in mortgage payments ($150 per month on average) induces a significant drop in mortgage defaults, an increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046195
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Measuring mortgage credit availability : a frontier estimation approach
Anenberg, Elliot; Hizmo, Aurel; Kung, Edward; Molloy, … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803181
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The intertemporal marginal propensity to consume out of future persistent cash-flows : evidence from transaction data
Druedahl, Jeppe; Jensen, Emil Bjerre; Leth-Petersen, Søren - 2022
bank sends a letter before the annual reset containing advance information on the expected change in mortgage payments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361501
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Financial literacy and subprime mortgage delinquency : evidence from a survey matched to administrative data
Gerardi, Kristopher; Götte, Lorenz; Meier, Stephan - 2010
The exact cause of the massive defaults and foreclosures in the U.S. subprime mortgage market is still unclear. This … a role. We measure several aspects of financial literacy and cognitive ability in a survey of subprime mortgage … borrowers who took out mortgages in 2006 or 2007 and match these measures to objective data on mortgage characteristics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664618
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Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency : Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data
Gerardi, Kristopher - 2014
The exact cause of the massive defaults and foreclosures in the U.S. subprime mortgage market is still unclear. This … a role. We measure several aspects of financial literacy and cognitive ability in a survey of subprime mortgage … borrowers who took out mortgages in 2006 or 2007 and match these measures to objective data on mortgage characteristics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069902
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Did the Basel Process of Capital Regulation Enhance the Resiliency of European Banks?
Gehrig, Thomas - 2018
This paper analyses the evolution of the safety and soundness of the European banking sector during the various stages of the Basel process of capital regulation. In the first part we document the evolution of various measures of systemic risk as the Basel process unfolds. Most strikingly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910412
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Did the Basel Process of Capital Regulation Enhance the Resiliency of European Banks
Gehrig, Thomas - 2017
This paper analyses the evolution of the safety and soundness of the European banking sector during the various stages of the Basel process of capital regulation. In the first part we document the evolution of various measures of systemic risk as the Basel process unfolds. Most strikingly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946327
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Did the Basel Process of Capital Regulation Enhance the Resiliency of European Banks?
Gehrig, Thomas - 2017
This paper analyses the evolution of the safety and soundness of the European banking sector during the various stages of the Basel process of capital regulation. In the first part we document the evolution of various measures of systemic risk as the Basel process unfolds. Most strikingly, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950027
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The exposure of mortgage borrowers to interest rate risk, income risk and house price risk : evidence from Swiss loan application data
Brown, Martin; Guin, Benjamin - 2014 - This draft: 2 December 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344795