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The Financial Accelerator: Evidence from International Housing Markets

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dc.contributor.authorHeitor, Almeida
dc.contributor.authorCampello, Murillo
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Crocker H.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-12T21:10:21Z
dc.date.available2020-09-12T21:10:21Z
dc.date.issued2006-01-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper shows novel evidence on the mechanism through which financial constraints amplify fluctuations in asset prices and credit demand. It does so using contractual features of housing finance. Among agents whose housing demand is constrained by the availability of collateral, those who can borrow against a larger fraction of their housing value (achieve a higher loan-to-value, or LTV, ratio) have more procyclical debt capacity. This procyclicality underlies the financial accelerator mechanism. Our study uses international variation in LTV ratios over three decades to test whether (a) housing prices and (b) demand for new mortgage borrowings are more sensitive to income shocks in countries where households can achieve higher LTV ratios. The results we obtain are consistent with the dynamics of a collateral-based financial accelerator in international housing markets.
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dc.identifier.other5266275
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/72244
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © Oxford University Press. Almeida, H., Campello, M., & Liu, C. H. (2006). The financial accelerator: Evidence from international housing markets. Review of Finance, 10(3), 321-352. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.rightsThis article received the Goldman Sachs Asset Management Best Paper Award for 2007.
dc.subjectasset price
dc.subjectcredit demand
dc.subjecthousing markets
dc.subjecthousing finance
dc.subjectprocyclical debt
dc.titleThe Financial Accelerator: Evidence from International Housing Markets
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationHeitor, Almeida: New York University
local.authorAffiliationCampello, Murillo: University of Illinois
local.authorAffiliationLiu, Crocker H.: chl62@cornell.edu Cornell University

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