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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 study the mortgage cash flow channel of monetary policy transmission under fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) versus … adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) regimes by comparing the United States with primarily long-term FRMs and Spain with primarily ARMs … that automatically reset annually. We find a robust transmission of mortgage rate changes to spending in both countries but …
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The relationship between the mortgage interest rate and a household's demand for mortgage debt has important … novel estimates of the interest rate elasticity of mortgage demand. Our empirical strategy exploits a discrete jump in … Freddie Mac. This discontinuity creates a large "notch" in the intertemporal budget constraint of prospective mortgage …
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During the Last three years mortgage rates have risen relative to yields on comparable maturity bonds. The questions … between early 198 and early 1981 in coupon rates on GNMA mortgage pools relative to ''the" rate on a comparable portfolio of … Treasury bonds to be about 100 basis points. We attribute the increase to a rise in the terminations premia built into mortgage …
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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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We examine the effects of various borrower-based macroprudential tools in a New Keynesian environment where both real and nominal interest rates are low. Our model features long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero-lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the long-term...
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