of the Danish mortgage finance system and compare and contrast it to the U.S. system. We also note characteristics of the … Danish model that may be of interest as the United States considers further mortgage finance reform. In particular, the … borrowers the option to repurchase their mortgage at the market price, mitigating "lock-in" effects. Danish mortgage …

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 …

homeownership. In this paper we use property-level data to estimate the effect of government mortgage guarantees on homeownership … reduce the government's involvement in the mortgage market by reducing the CLLs …

Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent … from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech … lenders process mortgage applications about 20 percent faster than other lenders, even when controlling for detailed loan …

mortgage finance can be seen building across several dimensions that need to be addressed. While reforms to the GSEs are an … important part of dealing with these concerns, this paper argues that broader changes need to be made across the entire mortgage …

researchers to depend on data from insurance company portfolios or the commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) market …

The “government-sponsored enterprise” (GSE) system of residential mortgage finance is clearly broken. But what will … mortgage guarantee that would be superior to the “tail risk” or “catastrophe” government insurance proposals that have …