The Costs of Macroprudential Deleveraging in a Liquidity Trap

By Jiaqian Chen, Jiawen Tang, Jesper Lindé, Hyeon

June 12, 2020

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Jiaqian Chen, Jiawen Tang, Jesper Lindé, and Hyeon. The Costs of Macroprudential Deleveraging in a Liquidity Trap, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

We examine the effects of various borrower-based macroprudential tools in a New Keynesian environment where both real and nominal interest rates are low. Our model features long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero-lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the long-term costs, in terms of forgone consumption, of all the macroprudential tools we consider are moderate. Even so, the short-term costs differ dramatically between alternative tools. Specifically, a loan-to-value tightening is more than twice as contractionary compared to loan-to-income tightening when debt is high and monetary policy cannot accommodate.

Subject: Consumption, Financial services, Housing, Housing prices, Labor, National accounts, Prices, Zero lower bound

Keywords: Collateral and borrowing constraints, Consumption, DSTI constraint, Global, Household debt, Housing, Housing prices, Long-term debt, Lower bound, LTI economy, LTV constraint, LTV tightening, Mortgage interest deductibility, New Keynesian model, Transmission mechanism, WP, Zero lower bound

Publication Details

Pages:

66
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Working Paper No. 2020/089
Stock No:

WPIEA2020089
ISBN:

9781513546803
ISSN:

1018-5941

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