This paper analyzes mortgage loan demand in Argentina using a new survey administered in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan … supply side constraints for the small size of the mortgage market in Argentina. Overall, the shallow mortgage market has not … posed a major impediment to home ownership in Argentina and the small (and shrinking) mortgage market has more to do with …

Following the 2001 financial crisis, the government of Argentina instituted economic policies to soften the adverse … of residential mortgages in Argentina. On the one hand, our results reveal a significant higher prepayment rate of …