freely adjust outstanding debt (refinancing) and (ii) dominant mortgage type in the economy (fixed or adjustable rate). I … their disposable income (hand-to-mouth) net of payments on long-term mortgage. I find that the optimal simple policy rule … significantly depends on the ability to adjust debt and on mortgage type. Policy prescriptions based on models not accounting for …

We study the role of monetary policy for the dynamics of U.S. mortgage debt, which is the largest component of … household indebtedness. A timevarying parameter VAR model allows us to study the variation in the mortgage debt sensitivity to … quantitatively similar to the VAR results. A sacrifice ratio for mortgage debt reveals that a policy tightening directed towards …