IMF Working Papers

The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies

By Viral V. Acharya, Katharina Bergant, Matteo Crosignani, Tim Eisert, Fergal McCann

May 22, 2020

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Viral V. Acharya, Katharina Bergant, Matteo Crosignani, Tim Eisert, and Fergal McCann. The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

We analyze how regulatory constraints on household leverage—in the form of loan-to-income and loan-to-value limits—affect residential mortgage credit and house prices as well as other asset classes not directly targeted by the limits. Supervisory loan level data suggest that mortgage credit is reallocated from low-to high-income borrowers and from urban to rural counties. This reallocation weakens the feedback loop between credit and house prices and slows down house price growth in “hot” housing markets. Consistent with constrained lenders adjusting their portfolio choice, more-affected banks drive this reallocation and substitute their risk-taking into holdings of securities and corporate credit.

Subject: Financial institutions, Money, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Bank portfolio choice, Credit, Credit reallocation, House price growth, House Prices, Household Leverage, Housing prices, Lending limit, Loans, Macroprudential Regulation, Mortgage credit, Mortgage issuance, Mortgages, Personal income, Residential Mortgage Credit, Residential mortgages, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    57

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2020/058

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2020058

  • ISBN:

    9781513545158

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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