Buying a house changes a household's balance sheet by simultaneously reducing liquidity and introducing mortgage …, a new mortgage acquisition has a robust and statistically significant positive effect on credit card utilization - the … acquisition of a new mortgage, consistent with larger down payments leaving households more constrained. …

mortgage is therefore critical to financial well-being but households often make costly mistakes. We collect data in an online … survey to test borrowers' comfort with, and understanding of, mortgage debt. We analyze the impact of financial literacy …, mortgage broker advice and whether the loan is framed as a lump sum debt or an equivalent stream of repayments. We conjecture …

This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and … spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market. There is evidence that the terms of access to external finance matter …