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paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We … investigatethe effect of house prices on (i) the number and size of second mortgages, (ii) the savingsof owner-occupiers and (iii … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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significantly related in some economies, but the relationship is driven by consumer credit, not by mortgages. Results therefore … lower mortgages …
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We study how changes in interest rates affect the borrowing of households and the distribution of debt within the population. In a model of household borrowing with credit constraints and endogenous house prices, we show that less constrained households with more pre-existing housing wealth...
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Excessive household borrowing has been identified as an important determinant of financial crises. Borrower-based macroprudential instruments have been proposed as a possible remedy. In Germany, two instruments have been available to macroprudential supervisors since 2017: a cap on the...
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Using a nationally representative panel of consumer credit records for the US from 1999 to 2021, we document a positive correlation between child and parent homeownership. We propose a new causal mechanism behind this relationship based on parents extracting home equity to help finance their...
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