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dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Heitor-
dc.contributor.authorCampello, Murillo-
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Crocker-
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-03T14:59:38Z-
dc.date.available2008-06-03T14:59:38Z-
dc.date.issued2005-10-18-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2451/27389-
dc.description.abstractThis paper shows novel evidence on the mechanism through which financial constraints amplify uctuations 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 nancial accelerator mechanism described by Stein (1995) and Bernanke et al. (1996). Our study uses international variation in maximum 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 housing markets.en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFIN-06-017en
dc.subjectFinancial contractingen
dc.subjectnancial acceleratoren
dc.subjecthousing pricesen
dc.subjectcollateral constrainten
dc.subjectincome constrainten
dc.titleThe Financial Accelerator: Evidence from the International Housing Marketsen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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