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Title: The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Author(s): Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor

Publication Date: September 2014

Keyword(s): business cycles, financial crises, leverage, local projections, mortgage lending and recessions

Programme Area(s): Economic History and International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks? balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have risen substantially in many countries. Financial stability risks have been increasingly linked to real estate lending booms which are typically followed by deeper recessions and slower recoveries. Housing finance has come to play a central role in the modern macroeconomy.

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Jordà, Ò, Schularick, M and Taylor, A. 2014. 'The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=10161