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Credit conditions, macroprudential policy and house prices

Kelly, Robert; McCann, Fergal; O'Toole, Conor - 2017

We provide a micro-empirical link between the large literature on credit and house prices and the burgeoning literature on macroprudential policy. Using loan-level data on Irish mortgages originated between 2003 and 2010, we construct a measure of credit availability which varies at the borrower...

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Resolving mortgage distress after COVID-19 : some lessons from the last crisis

McCann, Fergal; O'Malley, Terry - 2021

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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Death, demography and the denominator : new Influenza-18 mortality estimates for Ireland

Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2020

Using the Irish experience of the Spanish flu, we demonstrate that pandemic mortality statistics are sensitive to the demographic composition of a country. We build a new demographic database for Ireland's 32 counties with vital statistics on births, ageing, migration and deaths. We then show...

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