debt resolution process in the Irish mortgage market in the lead up to the COVID-19 shock. We highlight the widespread … engagement of Irish borrowers with debt resolution mechanisms during a decade in which one sixth of mortgage accounts were … restructured by 2016. Lenders favoured short-term mortgage modifications at the beginning of the decade and three-quarters of …

government backing of the mortgage market. Nonetheless, the dominance of the crown corporation CMHC in the mortgage insurance … market concentrates a significant amount of risk in public finances. Improving competitive conditions in the mortgage …

resolution of the mortgage arrears crisis in Ireland. Using a large and close to exhaustive panel data set of Irish mortgages … legacy effects of the crisis in explaining recent entry to arrears, the role of mortgage modification in the reduction in … Irish mortgage market. …