Arbeitspapier

A model of mortgage default

This paper solves a dynamic model of households' mortgage decisions incorporating labor income, house price, inflation, and interest rate risk. It uses a zero-profit condition for mortgage lenders to solve for equilibrium mortgage rates given borrower characteristics and optimal decisions. The model quantifies the effects of adjustable vs. fixed mortgage rates, loan-to-value ratios, and mortgage affordability measures on mortgage premia and default. Heterogeneity in borrowers' labor income risk is important for explaining the higher default rates on adjustable-rate mortgages during the recent US housing downturn, and the variation in mortgage premia with the level of interest rates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CFS Working Paper ; No. 452

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Thema
household finance
loan to value ratio
loan to income ratio
mortgage affordability
negative home equity
mortgage premia

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Campbell, John Y.
Cocco, João F.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Campbell, John Y.
  • Cocco, João F.
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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