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life-cycle profile of home ownership, and the mortgage default rate. The average coefficients that measure the agents …
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To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have...
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We examine the effects of various borrower-based macroprudential tools in a New Keynesian environment where both real and nominal interest rates are low. Our model features long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero-lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the long-term...
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Soaring real estate prices and valuations despite the economic downturn brought by the pandemic have focussed the attention of Dutch policymakers on potential macro-financial and socio-economic implications. In this context, our paper reviews the salient features of Dutch commercial and...
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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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, housing demand, and mortgage rate shocks. House price expectation shocks are the most important driver of the boom and account …
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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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Nonlocal mortgage lenders with greater exposure to high-growth housing markets accept fewer loan applications in these … lenders' exposure to high-growth markets is associated with more risk, more efficiency, and more return on mortgage portfolios …
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