Publications
Publications
- 2010
- HBS Working Paper Series
Who Selected Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Evidence from the 1989-2007 Surveys of Consumer Finances
Abstract
We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less suspicious or who may have had difficulty understanding complicated ARM features that became commonplace prior to the financial crisis.
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Citation
Bergstresser, Daniel B., and John Beshears. "Who Selected Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Evidence from the 1989-2007 Surveys of Consumer Finances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-083, March 2010.