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limit on residential mortgage loans in the Interest Act. That said, the availability and cost of residential loans for prime …
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We present an analysis of the sensitivity of household mortgage probabilities of default (PDs) and loss given default … counterfactual analysis of the responsiveness of mortgage PDs, LGDs, and bank capitalization conditional on adverse scenarios related …
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a mortgage debt crisis, but in several cases, the legal response was based on the introduction of personal insolvency … understanding of the main considerations in resolving personal insolvency and distressed mortgage debt in the context of crises …
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With another real estate boom-bust bringing woes to the world economy, a quest for a better policy toolkit to deal with these boom-busts has begun. Macroprudential measures could be in such a toolkit. Yet, we know very little about their impact. This paper takes a step to fill this gap by...
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mortgage interest rate leads to a 20 percent decrease in a typical bank's distance to default. Finally, we look at the cross …
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Housing cycles and their impact on the financial system and the macroeconomy have become the center of attention following the global financial crisis. This paper documents the characteristics of housing cycles in a large set of countries, and examines the determinants of house price movements....
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.Given persistently low real interest rates, lack of alternative investment and mortgage-to-GDP trend, rapid property price growth in …
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The financial crisis showed, once again, that neglecting real estate booms can have disastrous consequences. In this paper, we spell out the circumstances under which a more active policy agenda on this front would be justified. Then, we offer tentative insights on the pros and cons as well as...
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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 …
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past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per …
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