This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of implicit government guarantees of the obligations of government-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with insurance against aggregate shocks to mortgage...

Should the European Union grant state aid through an institution like the European Investment bank? This paper evaluates the efficiency of different measures for granting state aid. We use a theoretical model with firms that differ in their creditworthiness and compare different types of...

Should the European Union grant state aid through an institution like the European Investment bank? This paper evaluates the efficiency of different measures for grant-ing state aid. We use a theoretical model with firms that differ in their creditworthiness and compare different types of...

En este trabajo se analiza el caso de la profundización del crédito hipotecario en Argentina durante los años 90 y se lo compara con el fracaso de los años 80. Se muestra que la estabilidad macroeconómica condiciona el desarrollo del mercado y que con las instituciones legales y de mercado...

El presente trabajo estudia el mercado hipotecario de viviendas en Uruguay. El principal operador del mercado es el Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU), una institución estatal que concentra más de 80% del total de los créditos. Esta institución se ha visto en dificultades financieras, lo...

We study how the structure of housing finance affects the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We document three main facts: first, the features of residential mortgage markets differ markedly across industrialized countries; second, and ac- cording to a wide range of indicators, the...

1989 bereits wurde in einem Gutachten auf die "unterdurchschnittliche Ertragskraft" der Landesbanken verwiesen und der Zusammenschluss zu einem einzigen Spitzeninstitut gefordert. 20 Jahre später allerdings, inmitten der bislang schwersten Krise der Landesbanken, bewahrte das hiesige...