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, (ii) credit supply and (iii) housing demand shocks on the housing market and the broader economy. We find that … clearcut for housing demand shocks. We also find that credit supply shocks matter more in the euro area. …
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This paper investigates the responses of house prices and household credit to monetary policy shocks in Norway, using … household credit is muted. This is consistent with a relatively small refinancing rate of the mortgage stock each quarter. Using … to mitigate household credit may prove costly in terms of GDP and inflation variation. …
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The credit bubble experienced by the Irish residential and financial sector immediately prior to the global financial … with the increase in housing demand came a significant degree of credit market liberalisation which resulted in a … substantial increase in the availability of mortgage credit. This in turn additionally fuelled the emerging house price bubble …
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This study shows that, in the United States, the effects of monetary policy on credit and housing markets have become …. Macroeconomic stabilization through monetary policy may therefore have become associated with greater fluctuations in credit and … housing markets, whereas stabilizing credit and house prices may have become less costly in terms of macroeconomic volatility …
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The recent increase in house prices across the OECD highlights again the importance of understanding the different determinants of residential property demand. Sustained activity in housing markets across a number of countries was one of the contributing factors to the financial sector...
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credit conditions on it has been added to econometric assessments in recent years. Using a new cross-country panel, we … estimate the impact of variations in credit conditions on the house price to rent ratio between 1994 and 2015 on both a panel … credit markets. In line with other recent studies, our results establish the relevance of credit conditions to the house …
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This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...
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The paper assesses the impact of adding information on financial cycles on the output gap estimates for eight advanced economies using two unobserved components models: a reduced form extended Hodrick-Prescott filter, and a standard semi-structural unobserved components model. To complement...
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Mortgages are prime examples of long-term nominal loans. As a result, under incomplete asset markets, monetary policy can affect household decisions through the cost of new mortgage borrowing and the value of payments on outstanding debt. These channels are distinct from the transmission through...
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What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...
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