Download This PaperThe Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies
56 Pages Posted: 4 Jun 2019 Last revised: 23 Apr 2020
Date Written: May 15, 2019
Abstract
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.
Keywords: Macroprudential Regulation, Household Leverage, Residential Mortgage Credit, House Prices
JEL Classification: G21, E21, E44, E58, R21
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Viral V. Acharya
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business ( email )
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United States
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New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Stern School of Business
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012-1126
United States
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