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This paper studies the impact of mortgages on consumer debt and on debt on durable goods. Outstanding debt, representing mortgages, affects positively consumer debt, and the debt on durable goods. This hypothesis is empirically tested for the U.S. using PSID 2005 wave. Our results are striking....
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This paper uses loan-level data from the residential mortgage books of four Irish credit institutions, as at December 2010. The focus of the paper, is to provide an overview of the structure and condition of these housing loan books. This includes a description of borrower categories, interest...
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This paper examines the causal effect of bank credit expansion on fertility by exploiting exogenous increases in bank credit supply generated by the U.S. interstate branching deregulation between 1994 and 2005. I employ both traditional and staggered difference-in-difference methods to estimate...
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Die Zinsen befinden sich in Deutschland seit mehr als sieben Jahren auf einem historisch niedrigen Niveau. Der Umstand, dass bislang sowohl die Kreditvergabe als auch der Immobilienmarkt als wichtigster Vermögensmarkt moderat auf die historisch niedrigen Zinsen reagiert haben, ist kein Grund...
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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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Die aktuellen Finanzmarktturbulenzen wurden durch Entwicklungen im Immobiliensektor ausgelöst. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert dieser Beitrag den Zusammenhang zwischen den Immobilienpreisen und der Geldmengen- und Kreditvolumensentwicklung für den Zeitraum 1992 -2006 (westdeutsche...
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Die Zinsen befinden sich in Deutschland seit mehr als sieben Jahren auf einem historisch niedrigen Niveau. Der Umstand, dass bislang sowohl die Kreditvergabe als auch der Immobilienmarkt als wichtigster Vermögensmarkt moderat auf die historisch niedrigen Zinsen reagiert haben, ist kein Grund...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603631
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641888
The housing boom that preceded the Great Recession was due to an increase in credit supply driven by looser lending constraints in the mortgage market. This view on the fundamental drivers of the boom is consistent with four empirical observations: the unprecedented rise in home prices and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic significance of informal borrowing between friends and relatives in rural China. Guided by an economic model of household-production interactions, the paper provides results from a survey of over 1,500 households including...
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