Why Do We Have ARMs?

Jan Brueckner

Real Estate Economics, 1993, vol. 21, issue 3, 333-345

Abstract: This paper suggests a resolution to the paradox of inefficient risk bearing by adjustable‐rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers. The analysis shows that when contracts are written in a realistic way, with payments linked across time via a common loan‐rate function, risk sharing and the tilt of the mortgage payment stream become inextricably linked. Unless time preferences are identical or the cost of funds exhibits no time trend, borrowers will accept interest‐rate risk in order to gain a more favorable time path of mortgage payments.

Date: 1993
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