The sharp rise of house prices in China's Tier-1 cities has fostered a great deal of commentary about the possibility … of bubbles forming there. However, China's unique housing market characteristics make it difficult to assess the … macroeconomic policies to address these concerns. This paper looks at proposals to shore up the mortgage underwriting and legal …

application of these findings, the paper explores the possible effects of liberalization on China by applying the coefficients of … explanatory variables to the corresponding variables of China in 2012–16 …

Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can propagate …

estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and … Vietnam) during 1993–2013. The main findings include: (i) both China and India have recently exhibited a slowdown in potential …;(iii) over the longer term, demographic factors will be much more supportive in India and some ASEAN economies than in China …

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 …