Abel, Joshua; Fuster, Andreas - 2018
a mortgage on borrower balance sheet outcomes. We find that on average, refinancing into a lower-rate mortgage reduced …We use quasi-random access to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) to identify the causal effect of refinancing … borrowers' default rates on mortgages and nonmortgage debts by about 40 percent and 25 percent, respectively. Refinancing also …