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Sources of Inaction in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market. John Y. Campbell, March 2018, Paper, "A common problem in household finance is that households are often inactive in response to incentives. Mortgages are generally the largest household liability, and mortgage refinancing is an important channel for monetary policy transmission, so inactivity in this setting can be socially costly. We study how the Danish population responds to mortgage refinancing incentives between 2010 and 2014, building an empirical model that separately estimates time-dependent inaction (a low probability of responding to a refinancing incentive in a given quarter), and state-dependent inaction (a psychological addition to the financial cost of refinancing) "