borrower types and provides better pricing. We test the effectiveness of a specific set of contracts in the mortgage market …: mortgage points. Points allow borrowers to exchange an upfront amount for a decrease in the mortgage rate. We document that, on … overestimate how long they will stay with the mortgage …

these GSEs as mortgage market conditions deteriorated in 2007 and 2008. The analysis focuses on a key element of OFHEO …

for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We study a key component of OFHEOs model - 30-year fixed-rate mortgage performance - and … in a significant underprediction of mortgage credit losses and associated capital needs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac …

This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German …-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we … to 2020 for the whole German banking sector. Our results show that loss rates in the residential mortgage portfolios of …

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 …

homeowner only once the loan is repaid. By effectively reducing the LTV of the mortgage, it increases the homeowner's incentives …