The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …

The COVID-19 pandemic altered consumption patterns significantly in a short period of time. However, official inflation … Germany, we document how consumption patterns changed and we quantify the resulting inflation bias. We find that consumers … experienced a higher level of inflation at the beginning of the pandemic than what a fixed-weight inflation (or the official …

during the financial crisis in the United States. We focus on mortgage lending to minimize the impact of confounding demand … disaggregated data on mortgage applications that we use allows us to study the time variations in banks' decisions to grant mortgage …

This paper documents developments in mortgage credit and the housing sector in Latin America over the past decade, and … compares them with those of other emerging economies. In particular, it examines the real estate and mortgage markets to assess … whether (i) growth in mortgage credit is excessive compared to long-term trends; (ii) trends in house prices reflect changes …

MORTGAGE PRODUCT INNOVATION -- II. DATA ISSUES -- References. …

limit on residential mortgage loans in the Interest Act. That said, the availability and cost of residential loans for prime …