We quantify the housing-consumption channel in mortgage demand according to which households borrow more following … a structural approach to mortgage demand and supply, exploiting exogenous variation in house-price growth and a unique … dataset with matched transaction-price and mortgage information. We estimate an elasticity of mortgage borrowing to house …

Long-term fixed-rate mortgage contracts protect households against interest rate risk, yet most countries have … fixation length tracks the life-cycle decline of credit risk in the mortgage market: the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio decreases … using shorter-term contracts. To quantify demand for long-term contracts, I develop a life-cycle model of optimal mortgage …

This paper examines the effects of a mortgage interest rate subsidy on booms and busts in the housing market by … analyzing the Housing Mortgage program in Mongolia. We find that the most recent housing boom in Mongolia occurred from the …-specific factors and macroeconomic variables had a significant influence on housing price dynamics. Mortgage interest rate …