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This Selected Issues paper for Belgium evaluates whether price increases in Belgium are excessive. It assesses the household and bank balance sheets and their vulnerability to a slowdown in housing prices, and identifies differences in real estate markets between Belgium and other countries. The...
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mortgage interest rate leads to a 20 percent decrease in a typical bank's distance to default. Finally, we look at the cross …
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The financial crisis showed, once again, that neglecting real estate booms can have disastrous consequences. In this paper, we spell out the circumstances under which a more active policy agenda on this front would be justified. Then, we offer tentative insights on the pros and cons as well as...
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past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per …
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With another real estate boom-bust bringing woes to the world economy, a quest for a better policy toolkit to deal with these boom-busts has begun. Macroprudential measures could be in such a toolkit. Yet, we know very little about their impact. This paper takes a step to fill this gap by...
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Generally, the market notion designates a system of specific activities that are proceeding after some goods have been projected from the production sphere and bef ore these overtake the consuming sphere. Also, the market can be considerate as the meeting place between the buyers demand and the...
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В статье рассматриваются особенности российского и зарубежного рынка ипотечного кредитования. Исследуется процесс его становления в истории российской...
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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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