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 …

Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between …-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for … how the easing of monetary policy during the financial crisis affected mortgage holders. It shows that the resulting …

determinants of access to mortgage finance. It also examines whether mortgage holders were more likely to suffer financial distress … compared with non-mortgage holders in the period before the global financial crisis. The analysis does not find any systematic … evidence that mortgage holders are financially more vulnerable than renters or outright owners; in fact, the incidence of …