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Using bankruptcy to reduce foreclosures : does strip-down of mortgages affect the supply of mortgage credit?
Li, Wenli; Ishani, Tewari; White, Michelle J. - 2014 - Current version: February 2014
We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip …-term reduction in mortgage interest rates and a small, short-term increase in mortgage approval rates, but no long-term effects, and … the circuit court decisions did not consistently affect mortgage terms. These results suggest that strip-down would be an …
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Betting the house
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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The great mortgaging : housing finance, crises, and business cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …
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Housing market expectations
Kuchler, Theresa; Piazzesi, Monika; Stroebel, Johannes - 2022
purchasing and mortgage financing decisions. Finally, we highlight research on how expectations affect aggregate outcomes in the …
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Home ownership and monetary policy transmission
Koeniger, Winfried; Ramelet, Marc-Antoine - 2018
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...
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Housing-consumption channel of mortgage demand
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Szumilo, Nikodem; Tripathy, Jagdish - 2024
We quantify the housing-consumption channel in mortgage demand according to which households borrow more following … a structural approach to mortgage demand and supply, exploiting exogenous variation in house-price growth and a unique … dataset with matched transaction-price and mortgage information. We estimate an elasticity of mortgage borrowing to house …
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Taxing homeowners who won’t borrow
Wong, Francis - 2024
Using high-frequency administrative data covering millions of US homeowners, I document three novel facts about homeowner responses to property tax increases driven by rising home values. First, non-migrating homeowners cut consumption, exhibit financial distress, and do not borrow against their...
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Monetary policy transmission and house prices : European cross-country evidence
Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009
This paper explores the importance of housing and mortgage market heterogeneity in 12 European countries for the …
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Sustainability of product market collusion under credit market imperfections
Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Arijit; Yang, Lei - 2016
We study the implications of credit constraints for the sustainability of product market collusion in a bank-financed oligopoly in which firms face an imperfect credit market. We consider two situations, without and with credit rationing, i.e., with a binding credit limit. When there is credit...
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Behavioural credit cycles
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Iannotta, Gabriele - 2022
We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC) characterized by a credit friction à la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching à la Brock and Hommes. This behavioural approach allows to...
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