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In Norway house prices have risen to high levels, associated with very strong credit growth, in a context of low … considerations on resource allocation in the housing market. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Norway … (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-norway.htm).<P>Les instruments macroprudentiels en Norvège : Renforcer la …
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This paper builds a macro model with a financial sector and a housing market to understand the transmission and effects of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio (LTV), a countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)-style...
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From a broad macro-financial structure perspective, overly easy credit conditions gave rise to house price booms and busts in several advanced economies (e.g., Ireland, Spain, and the U.S.), and, more specifically in the U.S., an underpricing of risk made possible by regulatory arbitrage and...
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From a broad macro-financial structure perspective, credit conditions have gaven rise to house price booms and busts in several advanced economies (e.g., Ireland, Spain, and the U.S.), and, more specifically in the U.S., an underpricing of risk made possible by regulatory arbitrage and shadow...
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Following the global financial crisis, many countries have introduced or tightened macroprudential policies. Using an agentbased model (ABM), this paper seeks to measure the impact on house price cycles of two distinct borrower-based macroprudential instruments, namely loan-to-income and...
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We explore the interaction of monetary and macroprudential policy in a simple agent-based model of the housing market. Our model shows that the impact of monetary policy on housing market dynamics is smaller than the impact of macroprudential regulation. While both maximum loan-to-value ratios...
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In this paper, we explore the drivers of house prices in Norway, using a cross-country panel framework. Empirical … Norway are principally driven by market fundamentals – high household incomes, wealth, low interest rates and a growing … prices suggests that house prices in Norway have been overvalued to a degree since the global financial crisis. Some …
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Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable electoral cycle in the run-up to 221 elections across 58 countries from 2000 through 2014. Policies restricting mortgages and consumer credit are systematically less likely to...
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The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability. Assessments of the global financial crisis invariably point to ineffective finance regulation and supervision as the main reasons for the onset of the crisis and its severity. In...
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We summarize and evaluate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's credit risk transfer (CRT) programs, which have been used since 2013 to shift a portion of credit risk on more than $1.8 trillion of mortgages to private sector investors. We argue that the CRT programs have been successful in reducing the...
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