This paper documents developments in mortgage credit and the housing sector in Latin America over the past decade, and compares them with those of other emerging economies. In particular, it examines the real estate and mortgage markets to assess whether (i) growth in mortgage credit is...

Die Entwicklungen in der Wohnimmobilienfinanzierung sind volkswirtschaftlich bedeutend. Wie die Erfahrungen der Finanzkrise gezeigt haben, können etwaige Kreditausfälle die Finanzstabilität erheblich gefährden. Angesichts der steigenden Preise und niedrigen Zinsen wird besonders die...

This paper assesses how the degree of the mortgage market flexibility alters the effect of a residential house price shock on household credit and GDP. We estimate a panel vector autoregression model for a sample of 16 OECD countries for the period 1985Q1-2012Q4 and we identify a house price...

There exists a widespread perception that Argentine households channel a large share of their savings into real state. However, no hard evidence has produced to date to measure how important this saving behavior is for the determination of housing prices vis-à-vis the traditional housing motive...

Although the close empirical relationship between the evolution of mortgage lending and housing prices is well established in the literature, the direction of causation is less clear from a theoretical standpoint. We apply multivariate cointegration techniques in order to address this issue...

This paper presents a complex, modular, 1:1 scale model of the Hungarian residential housing market. All the 4 million house- holds and their relevant characteristics are represented based on empirical micro-level data coming from the Central Credit Information System, the Pension Payment...

This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly available over time in Japan, especially since 2000, and that this has made it easier for Japanese households to purchase housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age....

This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly available over time in Japan, especially since 2000, and that this has made it easier for Japanese households to purchase housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age....

This paper presents a complex, modular, 1:1 scale model of the Hungarian residential housing market. All the 4 million house‐ holds and their relevant characteristics are represented based on empirical micro‐level data coming from the Central Credit Information System, the Pension Payment...

The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of...