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This paper reconsiders the role of macroeconomic shocks and policies in determining the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate policy. In contrast with previous findings, the...
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debt resolution process in the Irish mortgage market in the lead up to the COVID-19 shock. We highlight the widespread … engagement of Irish borrowers with debt resolution mechanisms during a decade in which one sixth of mortgage accounts were … restructured by 2016. Lenders favoured short-term mortgage modifications at the beginning of the decade and three-quarters of …
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This paper describes a novel methodology of measuring risky and conservative mortgage credit using household survey … output, a feature linked to the lower relevance of homeownership which implies that mortgage credit plays a less prominent …
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resolution of the mortgage arrears crisis in Ireland. Using a large and close to exhaustive panel data set of Irish mortgages … legacy effects of the crisis in explaining recent entry to arrears, the role of mortgage modification in the reduction in … Irish mortgage market. …
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Using household survey data, we document evidence of a loosening of credit standards in Euro area countries that experienced a property price boom-and-bust cycle. Borrowers in these countries exhibited significantly higher loan-to-value (LTV) and loan-to-income (LTI) ratios in the run up to the...
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Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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