Arbeitspapier

Mortgage choice and expenditure over the lifecycle: Evidence from expiring interest-only loans

We study how homeowners' consumption responds to a negative and anticipated disposable income shock: the beginning of the amortisation period on interest-only mortgages. We identify spending behavior through an event study approach, by matching loan-level data that covers the universe of Danish mortgages to detailed administrative registries on borrowers. In response to an average increase in installments worth 9 percent of income, consumption drops by 3 percent of income, in the year when amortisation begins. The reduction in expenditure is persistent. Borrowers who fail to smooth consumption are highly leveraged, handto- mouth consumers, likely to be unable to obtain a new interest-only loan.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers ; No. 150

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Thema
Interest-only
Mortgages
Consumption

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Andersen, Henrik Yde
Bech, Stine Ludvig
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Danmarks Nationalbank
(wo)
Copenhagen
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Andersen, Henrik Yde
  • Bech, Stine Ludvig
  • Danmarks Nationalbank

Entstanden

  • 2020

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