We examine mortgage pricing before and after Switzerland was the first country to activate the Counter-Cyclical Capital … Buffer of Basel III. Observing multiple mortgage offers per request, we obtain three core findings. First, capitalconstrained … and mortgage-specialized banks raise their rates relatively more. Second, risk-weighting schemes supposed to discriminate …

This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit … households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks in order to grant a mortgage. Results show that easier access to credit …