The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation … accumulation, many lenders require large down payments. Second, in each monthly mortgage payment, homeowners substantially …, refinancing mortgages is often very costly. We propose a new fixed-rate mortgage, called the Fixed-Payment-COFI mortgage (or …

have higher mortgage delinquency and charge-off rates and significantly higher probabilities of failure during the last … stronger capital buffers. Our results suggest that there is scope for improved measures of mortgage loan risk that could be …

The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation … accumulation, many lenders require large down payments. Second, in each monthly mortgage payment, homeowners substantially …. To resolve these three flaws, we propose a new fixed-rate mortgage, called the Fixed-Payment-COFI mortgage (or "Fixed …

from renting to owning using an FHA-insured mortgage. In addition to calculating the fraction of these borrowers whose FHA … their homeownership without the need for an FHA mortgage. Another 20 percent are either in their original home or have moved … but continue to use an FHA mortgage. …

We study how the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) influenced the behavior of Agency mortgage real estate …. We document that Agency mortgage REITs: [i] equity prices reacted to QE announcements and in a manner consistent with …

€“expectations about the path of future house prices – affects the size and timing of provisions for first-lien residential mortgage …