@techreport{NBERw13487, title = "Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution", author = "Sumit Agarwal and John C. Driscoll and David Laibson", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "13487", year = "2007", month = "October", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13487", 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.}, }