The underlying motivation of this study is to
contribute towards correcting the deficiency of
research into home loan interest rates in the formal
literature. It does this by pursuing the following
two areas of research: the determination of home
loan interest rates, and testing for the presence of
seasonal and cyclical variations in Australian home
loan interest rates (using product-level home loan
interest rates data of the two major Australian
banks, National Australia Bank (NAB) and
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)). A detailed
review of the literature shows that the topic of the
determination of home loan interest rates, as well
as modelling seasonality and cyclicality in home
loan interest rates, has been profoundly ignored in
the formal literature. Consequently, a lot that will
be presented in this book will be expressed in the
literature for the first time.
contribute towards correcting the deficiency of
research into home loan interest rates in the formal
literature. It does this by pursuing the following
two areas of research: the determination of home
loan interest rates, and testing for the presence of
seasonal and cyclical variations in Australian home
loan interest rates (using product-level home loan
interest rates data of the two major Australian
banks, National Australia Bank (NAB) and
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)). A detailed
review of the literature shows that the topic of the
determination of home loan interest rates, as well
as modelling seasonality and cyclicality in home
loan interest rates, has been profoundly ignored in
the formal literature. Consequently, a lot that will
be presented in this book will be expressed in the
literature for the first time.