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a bank-level cap on mortgage credit growth to investors while the second policy placed a bank-level cap on the share of … interest-only mortgage lending. We show that the first policy caused a sharp and large drop in credit growth to investors …
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risk in the mortgage market raises the default rate and spreads to the rest of the economy, creating a recession. In our … model two shocks are well suited to replicate the subprime crisis and the Great Recession: the mortgage risk shock and the …. This policy is successful in stabilizing the mortgage market and makes all agents better off. …
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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We develop new measures to detect income falsification on mortgage applications during the housing bubble. We find that …
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mortgage rates and government bonds? Using a structural VAR approach, we find that mortgage spread shocks impact the real …
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lending constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical …, and the fall in mortgage rates. These facts are difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing …
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lending constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical …, and the fall in mortgage rates. These facts are difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017430
This paper aims to estimate a long-term equilibrium price level for the Hungarian housing market by identifying key underlying macroeconomic factors. For this, in line with the empirical literature, a vector error correction model is employed. The housing market price level is mapped by the...
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lending constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical …, and the fall in mortgage rates. These facts are difficult to reconcile with the popular view that attributes the housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028389
What are the effects of different borrower-based macroprudential tools when both real and nominal interest rates are low? We study this question in a New Keynesian model featuring long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the...
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