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recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large … early warning signal of the recent crisis. -- Stochastic optimal control ; dynamic optimization ; mortgage crisis ; Ito …
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Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers … of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research …'s (1986a) model, using it to characterize optimal contracts in the absence of mortgage termination, and then exploring how …
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We exploit a unique data set that features both un-intermediated mortgage requests and independent offers from multiple … current mortgage payments over the risk of possible hikes in future mortgage payments. We also provide evidence that banks do … influence the contracted mortgage rate fixation periods, trading off their own exposure to interest rate risk against the …
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This paper explores an overlooked phenomenon in mortgage markets: repayment of underwater mortgages. Since repayment in …, which includes credit impairment and possible guilt, repayment of an underwater mortgage is a wealth-maximizing strategy …
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We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption …
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We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U …
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to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). Using detailed micro data, we show that cash flow shocks … during the COVID-19 pandemic predict CRE mortgage delinquency, especially those stemming from lease expiration of offices …
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Theory suggests that corporate and sovereign bonds are fundamentally different, also because sovereign debt has no bankruptcy mechanism and is hard to enforce. We show empirically that the two assets are more similar than you think, at least when it comes to high-yield bonds over the past 20...
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We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip …-term reduction in mortgage interest rates and a small, short-term increase in mortgage approval rates, but no long-term effects, and … the circuit court decisions did not consistently affect mortgage terms. These results suggest that strip-down would be an …
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We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent's rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit the...
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