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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876665203321

Autore

Leece David

Titolo

Economics of the mortgage market : perspectives on household decision making / / David Leece

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2004

ISBN

1-281-31200-2

9786611312008

0-470-69402-5

0-470-69323-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Real estate issues

Disciplina

332.7/22

Soggetti

Mortgage loans

Mortgages

Housing - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"RICS Foundation"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An introduction to mortgage market economics -- The demand for mortgage finance : theory -- The demand for mortgage finance : empirical evidence -- The "tilt", mortgage designs, and the amortisation of debt -- Rationing, mortgage market adjustment, and separating equilibrium -- Credit rationing, mortgage market adjustment, and separating equilibrium : empirical evidence -- The households choice of mortgage design : theory -- The household's choice of mortgage design : theory -- The risky mortgage contract and embedded options : mortgage valuation and household behaviour -- Prepayment and default behaviour : empirical evidence -- Conclusion : the "field" of mortgage market economics.

Sommario/riassunto

The analysis of the mortgage market is a specialised field but examines a financial market with extremely wide-ranging implications; it affects the stability of the whole economy.  The key thing about this analysis is the increasing importance of the secondary mortgage market - which in the US is now several times larger than the market for government debt. The UK secondary mortgage market is also growing and the book will provide a timely resource to those active and interested in this



important financial market.  The 1990s saw an enormous growth of mortgage market analysis