Bluwstein, Kristina
[Verfasser:in]
;
Brzoza-Brzezina, Michal
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Gelain, Paolo
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Kolasa, Marcin
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Multi-Period Loans, Occasionally Binding Constraints and Monetary Policy
Erschienen in:Bank of England Working Paper ; No. 749
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (44 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3230122
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Beschreibung:
We study the implications of multi-period mortgage loans for monetary policy, considering several realistic modifications — fixed interest rate contracts, lower bound constraint on newly granted loans, and possibility for the collateral constraint to become slack — to an otherwise standard DSGE model with housing and financial intermediaries. We estimate the model in its nonlinear form and argue that all these features are important to understand the evolution of mortgage debt during the recent US housing market boom and bust. We show how the nonlinearities associated with the two constraints make the transmission of monetary policy dependent on the housing cycle, with weaker effects observed when house prices are high or start falling sharply. We also find that higher average loan duration makes monetary policy less effective, and may lead to asymmetric responses to positive and negative monetary shocks