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The Optimal Mortgage Payment Path Under Price Uncertainty
Author(s) -
Barney L. Dwayne,
White Harry
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
real estate economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1540-6229
pISSN - 1080-8620
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6229.00394
Subject(s) - certainty , payment , inflation (cosmology) , economics , actuarial science , econometrics , finance , mathematics , physics , geometry , theoretical physics
It has been shown that in a world of certainty, individuals with rising income streams will choose a graduated payment mortgage over the standard flat payment mortgage. The present paper extends this analysis by introducing uncertainty about future inflation rates. We show that the risk‐averse individual, when faced with uncertainty, will choose a less graduated payment path than in the certainty situation. While not conclusive, the analysis may cast some doubt on the suboptimality of the standard flat payment mortgage.