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The banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK) was deeply affected by the crisis. Bank credit has collapsed reflecting both weak demand and tighter supply. New prudential requirements have improved the resilience of the banking sector and a number of measures were taken to support credit supply....
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We study the exposure of mortgage borrowers in Switzerland to interest rate, income and house price risks and examine … analysis is based on a unique data set of household mortgage applications from September 2012 until January 2014. Our … assessment of risk exposure among mortgage borrowers in Switzerland is highly sensitive to the underlying assumptions on mortgage …
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According to the RF Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr), the land area in the ownership of RF individuals continues to decrease. As of 1 January 2012, it amounted to 119.6 million hectares (m ha) (7% of the total land surface) vs. 121.4 m ha (7.1%) in...
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In the wake of the financial crisis, mortgage lending to lower-income and minority borrowers overcorrected and has not …, mortgage regulation, and housing finance are needed to remove artificial institutional barriers to the flow of responsible … term, mortgage finance could be re-envisioned to integrate housing counselors, real estate professionals, and economists …
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channel that stems from the dependence of mortgage payments to interest rates. I introduce a novel identification strategy … demand for small neighborhoods. A decline in mortgage interest rates of 1.2 percentage points from July 2000 to December 2001 …
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Houses on streets with names that honor the Confederacy sell for 3% less than other similar nearby houses. The effect is concentrated outside the South and in regions with greater Black populations and more left-leaning voters, and it increases following attention-grabbing events that highlight...
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I measure the effect of mortgage debt-to-income restrictions on house prices using a change in the eligibility …
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Borrowers' housing equity is an important component of their wealth and a critical determinant of their vulnerability to shocks. In this paper, we create a unique data set that allows us to provide a comprehensive look at the ratio of housing debt to housing values - what we refer to as...
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-2015, we build an exogenous and fully data-driven indicator of mortgage supply stances and use it as an instrument for actual …
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