mortgage for strategic reasons, either because they are "underwater" or to preserve access to credit from other types of debt …-prime mortgage borrowers prioritize payments on their monthly mortgage over credit card debt obligations over a nine year period … to prioritize payments on mortgage debt over credit card payments. As of late 2008, in contrast, the similar consumers …

, especially, the financial cost of filing for bankruptcy. We study the effects of the reform on bankruptcy, insolvency, and …. We find that the decline in bankruptcy filings resulted in a rise in the rate and persistence of insolvency as well as an … that insolvency is associated with worse financial outcomes than bankruptcy, as insolvent individuals have less access to …

towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage … holders relative to countries where a significant part of households uses mortgage debt. This effect is net of ppp …. - Mortgage debt ; credit markets ; financial distress ; household finance ; peer effects …

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … reference households, and crucially so in countries with less expanded mortgage markets. Thus it appears that households …

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 …

commuting, and about how much to spend on a mortgage. By matching the results to data (at the ZIP-code level) about relative … commuting, and they find that people who live in the high-decline areas believe it is appropriate to spend more on a mortgage. …

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage … households have a mortgage outstanding relative to countries where a sizeable part of the population uses mortgage debt, like the … reference households, and crucially so in countries with less expanded mortgage markets. Thus it appears that households …