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- Title
Housing market dynamics and macroprudential policies.
- Authors
Bruneau, Gabriel; Christensen, Ian; Meh, Césaire
- Abstract
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the implications of macroprudential and monetary policies for credit cycles, housing market stability and spillovers to consumption. We consider a countercyclical loan‐to‐value (LTV) policy that responds to a credit‐to‐income ratio, and we compare its effectiveness with a permanent tightening of the LTV ratio and a monetary policy rule that responds to credit. To this end, we construct a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with housing market, household debt and collateral constraints, and we estimate it with Canadian data using Bayesian methods. Our study suggests that a countercyclical LTV ratio is a useful policy to reduce spillovers from the housing market into consumption and to lean against housing market boom–bust cycles. It performs better than the permanent tightening of the LTV ratio—a policy that has been used in a number of countries—and the monetary policy rule, both in terms of the stabilization of household indebtedness and spillovers into consumption. Monetary policy that leans against the wind is the least desirable due to its large adverse consequences on the real economy.
- Subjects
HOUSING market; MONETARY policy; CONSUMPTION (Economics); CONSUMER credit; LOAN-to-value ratio; GENERAL equilibrium theory (Economics); ECONOMETRIC models
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, Vol 51, Issue 3, p864
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/caje.12346