Arbeitspapier
Household risk management and actual mortgage choice in the euro area
Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between fixed-interest-rate mortgages (FRMs) and adjustable-interest-rate mortgages (ARMs). However, so far, no comprehensive cross-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for the euro area. Our results support the hypothesis of Campbell and Cocco (2003) that the decision is best described as household risk management: income volatility reduces the take-out of ARMs, while increasing duration and relative size of the mortgages increase it. Controlling for other supply factors through country fixed effects, loan pricing also matters, as expected, with ARMs becoming more attractive when yield spreads rise. The paper also conducts a simulation exercise to identify how the easing of monetary policy during the financial crisis affected mortgage holders. It shows that the resulting reduction in mortgage rates produced a substantial decline in debt burdens among mortgage-holding households, especially in countries where households have higher debt burdens and a larger share of ARMs, as well as for some disadvantaged groups of households, such as those with low income.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Bank of Canada Working Paper ; No. 2014-1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Monetary Policy
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- Thema
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Credit and credit aggregates
Transmission of monetary policy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ehrmann, Michael
Ziegelmeyer, Michael
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Canada
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Ottawa
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.34989/swp-2014-1
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ehrmann, Michael
- Ziegelmeyer, Michael
- Bank of Canada
Entstanden
- 2014
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