Mitigating the deadly embrace in financial cycles: Countercyclical buffers and loan-to-value limits

Jaromir Benes, Douglas Laxton and Joannes Mongardini ()

Chapter 5 in Global Economic Modeling:A Volume in Honor of Lawrence R Klein, 2018, pp 90-111 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper presents a new version of MAPMOD (Mark II) to study the effectiveness of macroprudential regulations. We extend the original model by explicitly modeling the housing market. We show how household demand for housing, house prices, and bank mortgages are intertwined in what we call a deadly embrace. Without macroprudential policies, this deadly embrace naturally leads to housing boom and bust cycles, which can be very costly for the economy, as shown by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09.

Keywords: Econometrics; Modeling; International Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Working Paper: Mitigating the Deadly Embrace in Financial Cycles: Countercyclical Buffers and Loan-to-Value Limits (2016)
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