Variable versus fixed rate mortgages and optimal monetary policy

The overall aim of the research presented in this thesis is threefold: To empirically examine monetary transmission to UK retail mortgage rates; to examine why fixed versus variable rate mortgage lending differs across EU-15 countries; and to build a DSGE model which can be used for analysing optima...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogers, Jack
Other Authors: Kirsanova, Tatiana
Published: University of Exeter 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546974