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Inflation has been below the Federal Reserve's target for much of the past 20 years, creating worries that inflation may be deanchoring from the FOMC's target. This paper uses a factor model that incorporates information from professional forecasters, household and business surveys, and the...
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Does monetary policy react systematically to macroeconomic innovations? In a sample of 16 countries - operating under various monetary regimes - we find that monetary policy decisions, as expressed in yield curve movements, do react to macroeconomic innovations and these reactions reflect the...
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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 …
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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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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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that mortgage lending boosted by expansionary monetary policy is driving up house prices. But theory suggests the value of … incomes and financial assets play a larger role. Policy experiments suggest that a gradual phasing out of mortgage interest …
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We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act … as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage … mortgage PH led to higher saving rates for more financially-stable households …
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