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Mortgage prepayment: An alternative to saving
After one year of intense interest rate increases, coupled with very slow pass-through to deposit rates, households have moved decisively to reconfigure their savings, and also
their borrowings. In this process of recomposition of household financial flows and the search for an alternative to deposits, the early cancellation of debts, especially variable rate mortgages, which are undoubtedly the most affected by the rise in interest rates, has
gained increasing significance.