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 …

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 …