Staff Discussion Notes

Housing Finance and Real-Estate Booms: A Cross-Country Perspective

By Eugenio M Cerutti, Jihad Dagher, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

June 3, 2015

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Eugenio M Cerutti, Jihad Dagher, and Giovanni Dell'Ariccia. Housing Finance and Real-Estate Booms: A Cross-Country Perspective, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

The recent global crisis highlighted the risks stemming from real estate booms. This has generated a growing literature trying to better understand the sources and the risks associated with housing and credit booms. This paper complements and supplements the previous work by (i) exploiting more disaggregated data on credit allowing us to dissociate between firm-credit and household (and in some cases mortgage) credit, and (ii) by taking into account the characteristics of the mortgage market, including institutional as well as other factors that vary across countries. This detailed cross-country analysis offers new valuable insights.

Subject: Credit, Credit booms, Financial institutions, Housing, Housing prices, Money, Mortgages, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Boom, Boom episode, Credit, Credit boom, Credit booms, Financial stability, Global, House price, Housing, Housing finance, Housing finance characteristic, Housing prices, Macroprudential regulation, Mortgage, Mortgage market, Mortgages, Real estate, Real-estate boom, SDN

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    35

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Staff Discussion Notes No. 2015/012

  • Stock No:

    SDNEA201512

  • ISBN:

    9781513571393

  • ISSN:

    2617-6750