The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation … accumulation, many lenders require large down payments. Second, in each monthly mortgage payment, homeowners substantially …. To resolve these three flaws, we propose a new fixed-rate mortgage, called the Fixed-Payment-COFI mortgage (or "Fixed …

Long-term fixed-rate mortgage contracts protect households against interest rate risk, yet most countries have … fixation length tracks the life-cycle decline of credit risk in the mortgage market: the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio decreases … using shorter-term contracts. To quantify demand for long-term contracts, I develop a life-cycle model of optimal mortgage …

mortgage lock-in over the lifecycle. We find that younger home buyers are disproportionately affected by mortgage lock … that on average mortgage lock-in reduces household listing probabilities by 21 percent to 23 percent, increases time on the …

Mortgage refinancing activity associated with extraction of home equity contains a strongly counter-cyclical component … empirically evaluate its predictions for the households' choices of leverage, liquid assets, and mortgage refinancing using micro …

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 …

The federal mortgage policy, the conforming loan limit (CLL), was spatially uniform before the recent financial crisis … declines, lenders raise jumbo loan approval rates, extend credit to riskier borrowers, lower mortgage rates to defend short …