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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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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170986
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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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The impact of peer-to-peer lending on small business loans
Kim, Jin-hyuk; Stähler, Frank - 2020
We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...
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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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Regional heterogeneity, the rise of public debt and monetary policy in post-bubbles Japan : lessons for the EMU
Fischer, Raphael; Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets, which have been followed by a lasting crisis. The paper analyses the role of a high degree of regional heterogeneity for public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis....
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Systematic monetary policy and the macroeconomic effects of shifts in loan-to-value ratios
Bachmann, Ruediger; Rüth, Sebastian - 2017
What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as … instrument, and, as a result, mortgage rates increase and residential investment declines. The monetary policy reaction function …. Without the endogenous monetary policy reaction residential investment increases. House prices and household (mortgage) debt …
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since … when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may … withdrawal and interest rates and find that indeed mortgage equity withdrawal is a key determinant of the observed saving pattern …
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