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Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution

NBER Working Paper No. w13487

41 Pages Posted: 15 Oct 2007 Last revised: 29 Mar 2021

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Sumit Agarwal

National University of Singapore

John C. Driscoll

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

David Laibson

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 2007

Abstract

We derive the first closed-form optimal mortgage refinancing rule. The expression is derived by using the Lambert-W function to solve a tractable class of mortgage refinancing problems. We calibrate our solution and show that our quantitative results closely match those reported by researchers who use numerical methods.

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Agarwal, Sumit and Driscoll, John C. and Laibson, David I., Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution (October 2007). NBER Working Paper No. w13487, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1020913

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