The long-run relationship between house prices and income reexamined: the role of mortgage interest deduction and mortgage product innovation

Sven Damen, Frank Vastmans and Erik Buyst

Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: We propose that the borrower’s ability to pay through a mortgage is a long-run house price fundamental and …find convincing evidence by means of cointegration tests, granger causality, and an elasticity of house prices with respect to ability to pay close to one. Ability to pay incorporates the effect of a decreasing trend in interest rates, changes in mortgage interest deduction and the recent innovation in mortgage products. We apply the model to the United States of America, United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. The results provide an intuitive alternative to standard house price models.

Date: 2014-04
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