Mitigating financial fragility with Continuous Workout Mortgages

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 269-285

  Shiller, Robert J ^a   Wojakowski, Rafał M ^b   Ebrahim, M Shahid ^c   Shackleton, Mark B ^b  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cap and floor on continuous flow; Continuous Workout Mortgage (CWM); House price index; Prepayment intensity; Repayment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872004276     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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