Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed-Form Solution

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 591-622

  Agarwal, Sumit ^a   Driscoll, John C ^b   Laibson, David I ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortgage; Option value; Refinance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878170266     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12017     Document Type: Article

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