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JOURNAL OF HOUSING ECONOMICS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 1-13Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2017.02.001
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Housing finance; Real estate; Macroprudential regulation; Financial stability; Credit booms
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The recent global financial crisis has highlighted the potential conflict between improving access to housing finance and maintaining financial stability. Using a new dataset on housing finance and house prices for a sample of more than 50 countries, this paper analyzes the dynamic relationship between household credit and house-price booms. It also examines the potential role of some housing finance characteristics on the likelihood of house-price booms and on how they ended. The following stylized patterns are high-lighted. First, credit and house-price booms are tightly linked. Second, house-price booms have occurred more often with a twin credit boom (simultaneous booms in both household and firm credit) than with a solo boom in household credit. Third, house-price booms seem to be more likely in countries with higher loan to value ratios and mortgage. funding models based on securitization or wholesale sources. Finally, we find that the majority of house-price booms end up with a recession, and that both twin credit booms and non-retail deposit funding predict a worse landing. (C) 2017 International Monetary Fund. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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