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Optimal Recursive Refinancing and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Longstaff, Francis A. - 2004

We study the optimal recursive refinancing problem where a borrower minimizes his lifetime mortgage costs by repeatedly refinancing when rates drop sufficiently. Key factors affecting the optimal decision are the cost of refinancing and the possibility that the mortgagor may have to refinance at...

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Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity and Mortgage Rates

Scharfstein, David S. - 2013

We present evidence that high concentration in local mortgage lending reduces the sensitivity of mortgage rates and refinancing activity to mortgage-backed security (MBS) yields. A decrease in MBS yields is typically associated with greater refinancing activity and lower rates on new mortgages....

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Measuring The Natural Rate Using Natural Experiments

Bäcker-Peral, Verónica; Hazell, Jonathon; Mian, Atif - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Every month, a fraction of UK property leases are extended for another 90 years or more. We use new data on thousands of these natural experiments from 2003 onwards to estimate the "natural rate of return on capital", \(r_K^\text{*}\), which also represents the long-run dividend-price ratio....

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The Role of Leasing under Adverse Selection

Hendel, Igal - 1998

Leasing contracts specify a rental rate and an option price at which the used good can be bought at the termination of … prices. In contrast, under adverse selection, leasing contracts affect equilibrium allocations in a way that matches observed … behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect …

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The Economics of Time-Limited Development Options : The Case of Oil and Gas Leases

Herrnstadt, Evan M. - 2020

Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms ubiquitously include royalty and primary term clauses. The royalty denotes the share of revenue that is paid to the mineral owner, and the primary term specifies the date by which the firm must complete a well, lest it lose the...

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Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation : Evidence from U.S. Airlines

Benmelech, Efraim - 2008

How do liquidation values affect financial contract renegotiation? While the 'incomplete contracting' theory of financial contracting predicts that liquidation values determine the allocation of bargaining power between creditors and debtors, there is little empirical evidence on financial...

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Owning, Using and Renting : Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"

Horton, John J. - 2016

New Internet-based markets enable consumer/owners to rent out their durable goods when not using them. Such markets are modeled to determine ownership, rental rates, quantities, and surplus generated. Both the short run, before consumers can revise their ownership decisions, and the long run, in...

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Collateral Damage : How Refinancing Constraints Exacerbate Regional Recessions

Caplin, Andrew - 1993

In the current structure of the U.S. residential mortgage market, a fall in property values may make it very difficult for homeowners to refinance their mortgages to take advantage of falling interest rates. In this paper, we explain the institutional background for this effect and quantify its...

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State Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy : the Refinancing Channel

Eichenbaum, Martin - 2018

This paper studies how the impact of monetary policy depends on the distribution of savings from refinancing mortgages. We show that the efficacy of monetary policy is state dependent, varying in a systematic way with the pool of potential savings from refinancing. We construct a quantitative...

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Refinancing, Monetary Policy, and the Credit Cycle

Amromin, Gene - 2020

We assess the complicated reality of monetary policy transmission through mortgage markets by synthesizing the existing literature on the role of refinancing in policy implementation. After briefly reviewing mortgage market institutions in the U.S. and documenting refinance activity over time,...

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