"This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers … prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately composed of the riskiest borrowers over time. Mortgages with … prepayment penalties allow lenders to lower mortgage rates and extend credit to the least creditworthy, with the largest benefits …

This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers … prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately composed of the riskiest borrowers over time. Mortgages with … prepayment penalties allow lenders to lower mortgage rates and extend credit to the least creditworthy, with the largest benefits …

This paper measures the impact of nonassumable, fixed-rate, long-term mortgage financing on household mobility and …, fixed-rate mortgage is largely responsible for bath sluggish housing demand in the l967-79 period and its surge in the 1976 … between current mortgage rates and those existing in the19705 and the resultant huge capital gains on existing mortgages does …