Chen, Kaiji; Wang, Qing; Xu, Tong; Zha, Tao - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 16 (2025) 4, pp. 1361-1408
We study how China's loan‐to‐value (LTV) policy affects mortgage markets and household consumption, focusing on an abrupt and unprecedented relaxation in LTV limits for secondary houses from 2014Q4 to 2016Q3. Using a rich dataset of over three million loan‐level records from a major...