Spatial Variation in Reverse Mortgages Usage: House Price Dynamics and Consumer Selection

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 392-417

  Haurin, Donald ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Moulton, Stephanie ^a   Schmeiser, Maximilian ^b   Seligman, Jason ^a   Shi, Wei ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortgage choice; Reverse mortgages; Senior housing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902225964     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: 1573045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-014-9463-2     Document Type: Article

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