Mortgages play a significant role in the US economy. Americans predominantly use fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) to avoid interest rate risk, but related risk aversion cost has not been analyzed yet. This paper fills gap by investigating of choosing FRMs over adjustable-rate (ARMs). We find that ex post, FRM borrowers made 12% – 23% higher payments 0.66% 1.62% potential ARM payment shocks. Conseque...

<div class="WordSection1"><h1 align="center"><strong style="font-size: 10px;">ABSTRACT</strong></h1></div><p>A theory analyzing the short run dynamics of nominal exchange rates under exogenous interest and free imperfect international capital markets is presented. Introducing elastic rate expectations leads to cumulative changes in spot forward same dir...

In this paper we consider a compound Poisson risk model where the insurer earns credit interest at a constant rate if the surplus is positive and pays out debit interest at another constant rate if the surplus is negative. Absolute ruin occurs at the moment when the surplus first drops below a critical value (a negative constant). We study the asymptotic properties of the absolute ruin probabil...