paper establishes some innovative dynamic models, proposes a concept of net mortgage loan to net speculative gain ratios to … investigate the speculative behaviors and mortgage bubbles, and finally concludes some interesting results: The necessary …, and, the net mortgage loan to net speculative gain ratios subsequently exist, which approximately depict the potential …

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 …

relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … inequality in the four countries correspond to their mortgage take up rates and its distribution across income, reflecting the … different degree of development of their respective mortgage markets. In Italy, alternative ways of financing, such as family …

We study the exposure of mortgage borrowers in Switzerland to interest rate and house price risks and examine how the … based on a unique data set of household mortgage applications from September 2012 until January 2014. Our assessment of risk … exposure among mortgage borrowers in Switzerland is highly sensitive to the underlying assumptions on mortgage costs, household …

This chapter considers the structure of mortgage finance in the U.S., and its role in shaping patterns of homeownership … the design features of mortgage contracts that distinguish them from other loans, and that have important implications for … issues presented in the rest of the chapter. We then explain how mortgage finance interacts with public policy, particularly …