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 …

We study the impact of loan-to-value regulation on supply and demand for unregulated debt that is used for home … acquisition. In our setting, part of the dwelling price is in the form of pre-existing debt exempt from the regulation. Variations … in the latter prior to the LTV regulation generated exogenous variation in the regulatory requirements across buildings …

conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing … not fall into serious recessions, although a too severe regulation can slow down economic growth. …

This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit … households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks in order to grant a mortgage. Results show that easier access to credit … a too severe regulation can slow down economic growth. …

. This paper aims to resolve a part of the opaqueness surrounding credit-risk allocation to tranches that represent claims of … different seniority on a reference portfolio. In particular, this paper analyzes the allocation of credit risk to different … risk in CDO transactions. We propose a metric for capturing the allocation of systematic risk to tranches. First, in …

allocation of risky projects within the banking sector. Moreover, we show that mandatory deferral of compensation is weakly …