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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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-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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levels through the mortgage interest rate, which enables the central bank to reduce large fluctuations and bubble tendencies …
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Household debt and house prices in the United Kingdom rose substantially between 1987 and 2006. In this paper we use a calibrated overlapping generations model of the household sector to examine the extent to which changes in demographics, lower inflation, and a lower long-run real interest rate...
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This paper examines how a new lender affects local mortgage and housing markets around its branches. Specifically, I … demonstrate the impact on mortgage supply, house prices and repossessions. I use the decision of the European Commission to force … resources to the economy. The results show that incumbent banks increase mortgage lending in areas where the new bank has its …
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To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly data from 1983 to 2018. This paper finds that downside risks to housing markets in the United States have...
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prices on expenditure is entirely driven by home-equity extraction. Our results indicate that the mortgage system plays an …
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Expansionary monetary policy can increase household leverage by stimulating housing liquidity. Low mortgage rates …
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risks arising from stressed mortgage markets to financial and economic stability. Having disaggregated information on the …
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