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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 …
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mortgage contract, in which differences in the borrower and the lender's risk preference jointly determine the equilibrium … commercial mortgage data provide generally supporting evidence for the predictions, and the evidence on counter-cyclical leverage …
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Lenders are frequently accused of mispricing the put option imbedded in non-recourse lending (Herring and Wachter, 1999 and 2003). Prior research (Pavlov and Wachter, 2004) shows one lender's incentives to underprice. Here we identify the conditions for a market-wide underpricing equilibrium. We...
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After the short temporary popularity of foreign currency denominated (FXD) loans, during the Great Financial and Economic Recession (2007- 2013), the burden of these loans has become unaffordable for a lot of borrowers in East Central Europe. We have designed a family of simple models to compare...
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Under the new Basel II regulatory framework, the need for an effective risk-adjusted pricing mechanism has become even more central in banking than in the past: banks are spurred to develop risk-adjusted measures, to avoid wasteful customers' cross-subsidization and support the value creation...
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We show that the liquidation value of collateral depends on who is pledging it. We employ transaction-level data on overnight repurchase agreements (repo) and loan-level credit registry data on corporate loans. We find that borrowers on the repo market pay a 2.6 basis points rate premium when...
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