How has the CCB affected mortgage pricing after Switzerland became the first country to activate this Basel III … macroprudential tool? By analyzing a database with several offers per mortgage request, we construct a picture of mortgage supply and … demand. We find, first, that the CCB changes the composition of mortgage supply, as relatively capital-constrained and …

We examine mortgage pricing before and after Switzerland was the first country to activate the Counter-Cyclical Capital … Buffer of Basel III. Observing multiple mortgage offers per request, we obtain three core findings. First, capitalconstrained … and mortgage-specialized banks raise their rates relatively more. Second, risk-weighting schemes supposed to discriminate …