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Using a monthly panel dataset of individuals' debt composition including mortgage and nonmortgage consumer credit, we … homeowners reoptimize their debt structure by using withdrawn home equity to pay down comparatively expensive short-term non-mortgage …
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Any conversation regarding the current financial crisis must include a discussion of home prices. After dramatic home-price increases through the 1990's and early 2000's, U.S. home prices began a severe downturn during 2006. During this time period of significant price appreciation, as previous...
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists, this adjustment can slow GDP growth by weighing on consumption. Using a sample of advanced and emerging market economies, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship...
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choice of mortgage product. Ours is the first study to model the choice of reverse mortgages alongside other modes of equity … recovery period (2010-2015), we observe this relationship only for reverse mortgage borrowing, consistent with tightened … underwriting for forward mortgage loans …
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In this paper we use a large panel of individuals from Consumer Credit Panel dataset to study the timing of homeownership as a function of credit constraints and expectations of future house price. Our panel data allows us to track individuals over time and we model the transition probability of...
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Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are … institutional framework that governs mortgage lending lead to information loss in appraisals (that is, appraisals set equal to the … incidence of mortgage default at loan-to-value boundaries (notches) above which mortgage insurance rates increase. Appraisals …
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