Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgagecontracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modeled using quantile regressions. Wepropose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the taxtreatment of housing...