can affect household decisions through the cost of new mortgage borrowing and the value of payments on outstanding debt …

The reallocation of mortgage debt to low-income or marginally qualified borrowers plays a central role in many … explanations of the early 2000s housing boom. We show that such a reallocation never occurred, as the distribution of mortgage debt … with respect to income changed little even as the aggregate stock of debt grew rapidly. Moreover, because mortgage debt …

, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan …

This paper provides evidence for the propagation of idiosyncratic mortgage supply shocks to the macroeconomy. Based on … micro-level data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act for the 1990-2016 period, our results suggest that lender …-specific mortgage supply shocks affect aggregate mortgage, house price, and employment dynamics at the regional level. The larger the …

decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth … housing sector in times of high LTV ratios, which, through changes in mortgage lending and mortgage equity withdrawals (MEWs …

risk in the mortgage market raises the default rate and spreads to the rest of the economy, creating a recession. In our … model two shocks are well suited to replicate the subprime crisis and the Great Recession: the mortgage risk shock and the …. This policy is successful in stabilizing the mortgage market and makes all agents better off. …

We document the emergence of a disconnect between mortgage and Treasury interest rates in the summer of 2003. Following … the end of the Federal Reserve's expansionary cycle in June 2003, mortgage rates failed to rise according to their … historical relationship with Treasury yields, leading to significantly and persistently easier mortgage credit conditions. We …

This paper provides evidence for the propagation of idiosyncratic mortgage supply shocks to the macroeconomy. Based on … micro-level data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act for the 1990-2016 period, our results suggest that lender …-specific mortgage supply shocks affect aggregate mortgage, house price, and employment dynamics at the regional level. The larger the …